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COLUMBUS: 
RICUARD NEVINS, STATE PRINTKK 

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MILITARY AND SANITARY. 



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COLUMBUS: 
EICHARD NEYINS, STATE PRINTER, 

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RESOLUTION 

Requiring the Auditor of State to compile certain iuformationof a military and sanitary charac- 
ter, and authorizing the same to be printed and forwarded to Ohio soldiers in the fleld. 

Resolved hy the General Assembly of the State of Ohio. That the Auditor of State be and he is 
hereby required to cause to be compiled from the Governor's Message, Auditor's, Adjutant- 
General's, Quartermaster-General's and Surgeon-General's Reports, together with the Sanitary 
Committee's Reports, such military and sanitary information as he may deem useful for our citi- 
zens in the army : and that ten thousand copies of said document be printed for the use only 
of the army, to be forwarded by the Governor and Auditor to the oflScers and soldiers from this 

State. 

JAMES R. HUBBELL, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

B. STANTON, 

rresiderU of the Senate. 
March 16, 1863. 

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Office o? the Auditor of State, 

Cohtmbus, Ohio, April 14, 1863- 

The following pages are compikd from the annual Message of the Governor, 
the Reports of the Auditor of State, the Adjutant- General, the Quartermaster- 
General, and Suf-geoa- General, under instructions contained in a joint resolution 
of the Gentral Assembly, requiring the Auditor of State to cause to be compiled 
such military and sanitary information as he might deem useful for our citizens 
in tlie army. In complying with the requirements of the General Assembly, the 
Auditor of State has called upon the Governor and each of the officers named, to 
select such portions of his message and report as he might deem best adapted to 
carry out the intent of the General Assembly ; and these selections are here 
presented . 

The report of the Sanitary Committee, from which the General Assembly 
supposed useful information could be extracted, has not come to the hands of the 
Auditor, nor is he aware that any has been made. The extracts from the Gov- 
ernor's Message, the report of the Qaartermaster-General, and the correspond- 
ence connected with the Surgeon General's department, will show that the wel- 
fare of our Ohio soldiers has not been overlooked at home ; but they do not 
show — indeed no report can ever show— the unceasing energies and labors of 
the kind-hearted and patriotic women of our State to minister to the sick and 
wounded of the gallant men of Ohio, who have gone forth to fight the battles of 
their country. 

R. W. TAYLER, Auditor. 



GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 



Gentlemen of the Senate and Bouse of Representatives : 

I corgratulafe the peop'e of tbe St-ile, our common constituents, that the 
per'ol has arrived when 50U, their immediate neighbors and representatives, 
fre«h from your liomes, can pnrucTpate io th*^ duties and responsibilities of pro- 
viding for and proeriing il>eir iutf rests ; and it is a source of great relief to my- 
self to tnow ihsit, with your pre«tnce, I shall have able counselors to guide and 
direct me, in the cJischarge of the many cares and responsibilities resting upon 
the Executive. 

There never has bten a period in the history of our State when a faithful and 
vieilunt effort at duty, on the part of the people's representatives, was more re- 
quired than the prfsent The question of man's capacity for self-government is 
yet unsettled The giganiic f ffort of wicked and bad men to overthrow our 
benuiitul and heavenly furm ef i;overnmert, which ex'sted at the period of your 
adjnurnment, has not yet been quelled. We were given the reigns of our State 
governnietit, (or the lime ^eing, by an honest and confiding constituency, wiih a 
special view to carry out their wi*he8 in maintaining the government as handed 
down to them by th«ir Fathers; we should look well to it, then, that we do not 
disappoint their expectations. They have not filtered in this great work ; but, 
fully appreriatinir the miyht\ importance of preserving our institutions, they have 
yielded up everMhing, wi h a det;ree of generosity unparalltled in the history of 
Any peojjle. Ever\ thing dear to tjierti lias been given to the <:ause. Husbands, 
fathers, ^ons. und brothers havt- left their loved ones, to brave the dang-rs of the 
field of b -tile and the diseases incident to camp lile, with a cheerfulness never 
before mariiie^-ted. The mohers, wives and sisters also have fully demonstrated 
their claim to the love and atiectiun of ihete brave and gallant men. All that 
troman c«n do, has been done to alleviate the distresses of our soldiers, aud 
ther. by stimirlate them to du'V 

Such beitig the ch^ract<r of our constituents, it is impossible to measure the 
cl>»im they have upon us, their agents Energy, integrity aud purity of purpose, 
economy and industry, are. at least, due from us to them. 

Aside from the claim that our consiiiutnls have upon us for all this, the only 
true reward a public servint can win for himself, is, to be able to claim, when 
communini/ with hit* Maker, an honest and vigilant eiffort at public duty. It we 
cannoi claim this f ■ r oits ives, when we sli ill surrender up our tru-.t, we will 
have worked to little purpose. 

It is not necessary to discuss the question presented by thi-s rebellion with the 
peopl.' o' Oliio ; -hey have, wi h yreal unanimity, determined that, cost what it 
ina\ in time, ireasi-re or li'e, the UnicU of the States, as handed down to us by 
our Falh. rs. sliall he pre^erv d uuirupared ; and thus handed down to our cl il- 
dr-n. Th y w ll not fur one n)oii,etit concede that there can b^^ any cause suffi- 
ci< nt to ju^li'y a S ate, or H' y 1 utntier of ISiates. in withdrawing fr( in the Union, 
Admit, it \ou pl»-ase, rh .i t'le authorities ot 'he Federal Government, (or the 
tim»" beirig. were to attenip' to interlere with the domestic instiiulioi s of either 
Ouio or boutb Carolina, iv the extent evtn of introducing slavery into the former 



or excluding it from the Utter ; this would not give the slightest pretext for the 
one ti'us attempted to be interfered with, to take up arms against the govt-rnment. 
The Federal Lonslitution itself expressly protects the State, thus interfered with, 
from injury. Long before any such attempt could be executed, the people, ia 
whose hands all power is placed, wouliJ, ihrouj/h the peaceably, quiet mode 
pointed out by the Cons itution, hurl the authors of s^uch attempt from power, 
and thus rescue the injured State. But no sucli attempt has been made, or 
thought of, by the Federal officers now in power ; and this the authors and leaders 
of the rebellion well know. President Lincoln has, again and again, in the most 
solemn manner, a'^sured the people that it was his determination, so far as lay in 
his power, to preserve, inviolate, all the rights of the sevi-ral States. The Fed- 
eral Congress, the several Scate Legislatures of the loyal States, and the people 
of said States, in their political assemblies, have all, again and again, made the 
same pledges to the people of the South. It was not, therefore, either the fear 
or the belie! that their State rights were about to be interfered witn, that induced 
them to take up arms against the government. Mad ambition, and disappoint- 
ment in not obtaining place and power, on the part of a few wicked men, was 
the sole cause ; and all other causes alleged by these leaders, are simply to de- 
ceive their blind followers. 

To bring thuse wicked men to the puni>hment they deserve, and thereby re- 
store harmony, law and order throughout our commou country, the people of 
Ohio desire to do their full share of cJuty ; and, to that end, will bear any bur- 
den that may be imposed upon them. 

The period since your adjournment has been one of great excitement. About 
the first of June our National Capital was seriously threatened by the rebel 
army ; and, but for the prompt response to the Pres-ident's call for more troops, 
would have been s-acked and plundered. The gi'lant young men of our State 
Were among the first to rush to tiie rescue ; over five thousand promptly assem- 
bled at Camp Chase, and tendered their services. To their honor, and the honor 
of the State, it should be known, that although they thus assembled without offi- 
cers, or military organization ot any kind, a more quiet, orderly and well-behaved 
body of men or soldiers never met tojelher. About three thousand ot this num- 
ber were promptly organized into regiments and .'^ent to ttic vicinity of Washing- 
ton ciiy, where they remained during the term for which they were organized ; 
and, it is proper to add, maintained their high character for courage and gentle- 
manly bearing. The remainder were organized for duty at Camp Chase and 
other points within the State. Many of these, since their discharge, have gone 
into the service for three years, or during the war. 

The desperation and audacity of the rebel enemy led them, early in Septem- 
ber, to attempt the invasion of our southern border. To r&ptl this impudent and 
wicked movement, it became necessary to call upon the lo) al citizens of the State 
to arm themselves, repair to the border, and drive back the insolent foe. 

Most nobly were these calls responded to. From the fields, workshops, stores, 
offices and sacred desks, both old and young, most; generously turned out, and, 
armed with the same old lifles used by the pioneers of the State, with the same 
old buHet-pouch and powder horn, and with three days' rations, cooked by dear 
mothers and wives, rushed to our southern border and drove the fiends back, and 
thus saved the ioil we all love so much, and the Queen City, of which we are ail 
BO justly proud, from invasion and destruction. The enemy, seeing this evidence 
of gallantry and power, were glad to abandon their hellish purpose, and retire ; 
thus pieventing an opportunity of testing, whether or not the old gun was sliil 
true to the steady and manly hand of him who held the same. 

The enemy having thus retired, these p itriotic volunteers had but to return to 
their anxious fiiends; happy, however, in the reflection, that their short term of 



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serdce, though bloodless, had demonstrated to the world, that our love for free 
institutions is such, that we will, on a moment's warning, peril life, property, all, 
for their preservation. 

It is difficult to estimate, with any degree of accuracy, what number of brave 
and patriotic men turned out on these occasions They could be counted only by 
measuring the means of transportation, for thousands were turned back for the 
want of these. 

At many points on the Ohio, aboVe Cincinnati, we were, for many weeks, con- 
stantly threatened with invasion ; indeed, the people of nearly all the river coun- 
ties have been in a state of alarm most of the summer and fall. The river has 
been unusually low, thus forming but a slight protection to our border. lam 
happy to announce, however, that the vigilance and patriotism of ihe citizens of 
the counties thus exposed, have proved sufficient to protect our border from inva- 
sion, without any material assistance from other portions of the State. 

The attention of the War Department was called early to this subject ; but 
although it evinced a disposition and willingne.<:s to do all in its power to drive the 
enemy from Western Virginia, it was impossible to concentrate a sufficient force 
for that purpose until about the first of October. All is now quiel on our sou h- 
ern border. 

Early in July, the Prendent issued calls upon the loyal States for 600,000 
more troops. Ohio's quota for these calls was about 74,000 ; and we were called 
upon to raise this number promptly. When it is remembered that, up to this 
date, we had raised 115,200 troops, by voluntary enlistment, of which number at 
least 60,C00 were then in the field, this additional demand will be fully appreciated. 
Large, however, as this demand was, at d great as the eflfort necessarily wculd be 
to meet it, you will be proud to kcow that the gullant men of Ohio were found 
equal to the emergency. VV ith one accord, the patriotic and loyal citizens all over 
the State entt-red upon the good work, and ceased not untd it was finished. 

Of this number, about 37,000 weie, by an Act of Congress, passed July 17, 
1862, and by the President's order, issued iu pursuance thereof on the 4ti» day 
of August, 1862, subject to be drafted, upon failure to tender thtir services vol- 
untarily. 

Anticipating the draft, on the 22d day of July, A. D. 1862, I requested the 
several township and ward asees-ors to tak«; an enumeration, and make a perfect 
list of all citizens, subject to military duly, wiilun their respective districts. This 
request was most cheerfully complied witii ; and I here return my sincere thanks 
to the Auditor of State, and the Beveral county auditors and township and ward 
assessors, for their kind and prompt assistance in this difficult and unpleasant 
day. 

The Report of the Hon. Martin Welker, who was appointed to superintend the 
execution of the President's order relating to the draft, is herewith submitted, and 
to which your attention is invited. 

It will be seen, that the total militia strength of the State is 426,147; that, of 
the 74,000 required f;om Ohio, about 62,010 volunteered between the date of 
the President's order and the date fixed for the draft; thus leaving but about 
12,000 to be drafted; that, of this 12,000, abtut 4,800, either in person or by 
substitute, volunteered for the term of three years; that 2,900 were discharged 
for vaiioiis rea^onp, and that 1,900 have, as yet, failed to respond to the dralt ; 
thus leaving 2,4C0 as the number actually sent to the field for service under the 
draft. 

The deficiencies, above stated, occasioned by discharges and failures to respond, 
amounting together to 4,800, aie more than made good by voluntary enliilm..nts, 
since the dratt, of men other than those drafted. 

Ohio has, therefore, fully responded to the large calls made upon us. We all 
have reason to feel proud of our noble State, to know that she has within her 



borders so generous and patriotic a people. To the many generous hearts, who 
have contributed so liberally in this great and good work, the people are much 
indebted. To the several county military cooamittees especial credit is due. 

The Report of the Adjutant General, herewith, will give the disposition of this 
large army from Ohio. It also exhibits our total force now in ihe field. This 
report is worthy of your profound consideration. To Adjutant-General Hill, and 
his able and efficient corps of clerks, I am greatly indebted. They have devoted 
themselves to the duties uf their respective positions with diligence and scrupulous 
fidelity. 

The Report of Quartermaster-General Wright will advise you fully of the 
operations of his department. A perusal of this report will fully demonstrate the 
necessity of an eflacient head, and competent corps of assistants and clerks, in this 
department. The State has reason to be proud of the gentlemen who now occupy 
these positions. 

Of all the departments of the service, there is none that requires more vigilance, 
care and kindness, than the one having charge of the sick and wounded soldiers. 
Thank God, we can claim, for this department of the army of Ohio, a most faith- 
ful performance of duty. With the efficient aid of the good women of Ohio, and 
the generous and benevolent surgeons and humane nurses found all over the State, 
Surgeon- Generals Weber and Smith have been able, most successfully, to minister 
to the sanitary wants and necessities of our gallant army. 

The reports of Surgeon Generals Weber and Smith, herewith submitted, con- 
tain a full statement of the operations of this department ; and while they show 
that there has been great suffering in our army, they also exhibit the gratifying 
fact that everything that could be done, to alleviate the distresses of our soldiers, 
has been done. The noble women of our State have toiled day and night in this 
good work ; the kind and pure men of the State have also done their duty. The 
soldiers' prayer, for God's richest blessings upon the heads of all who have thus 
ministered to their wants, will be answered. 

'Large and generous as your appropriation was, for this noble work, you will 
see, from the accounts herewith presented, that it was no more than sufficient. 

When you learn, however, that your liberality has saved the lives of thousands 
of the gallant sons of Ohio, and that every dollar of the money has been judiciously 
expended, you will not, I am sure, regret your generosity. This account, with 
notes of explanation fiom Judge Hoffman, Private Secretary, is herewith presented; 
from which it will appear, that there has been paid for the removal of the sick 
and wounded, by steamboats, $41,009 56; to the several railroad companies, for 
transportation of soldiers and their nurses, and volunteer surgeons and nurses, up 
to the first day of November, A. D. 1862, the sum of $66,362 20— of which there 
has been collected and paid back the sum of $24,992 72, and yet due and unset- 
tled to the roads, $10,934 50 — leaving, as paid for transportation from the con- 
tingent fund, the sum of $30,524 98. Of this sum we have a claim for part 
against the soldiers transported ; how much will be realized from this claim, it is 
impossible now to estimate with any degree of accuracy. For telegraphing for the 
several military departments, $11, 8 14 29; for State assistant surgeons, 67,822 25; 
for pay agents, services and expenses, $2,954 31; for pay and expenses of vol- 
unteer surgeons and nurses, sanitary agents and stores, the sum of $7,683 85; 
and for medical board of examiners; military printing, advertising and postage; 
*• Soldiers' Home" at Cincinnati ; expenses of laboratory and arsenal ; clerk hire, 
pay of messengers and traveling expenses, &c., $25,262 23— making, together, 
the total sum of $127,071 47, up to the 19th day of December, A. D. 1862. 

These several sums will be charged up against the Federal Government, and 
they will, it is presumed, be allowed. 

It is difficult at this date to fix, with any degree of accuracy, upon a sum suffi- 
cient for the military contingent fund for the ensuing year. A conference with 



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the Military and Finance committees of your respective bodies, towards the close 
of the session, is invited for that purpose; In ihe meantime, however, I ask an 
early appropriation of an amount sufficient to meet current wants. 

The allowance of an extra surgeon to each regiment, by an Act of Congress, 
has enabled me to dismiss from the State service, the assistant surgeons whose 
appointment you authorized at your last session. 

The operation of the system of pay agents was not as successful as was antici- 
pated. The total amount paid into the State Treasury, through this agency, is 
8820,945 21, at a cost to the State of $2,954 31. There is now but one pay 
agent in the service. A necessity, however, may arise for the employment of 
additional agents ; hence, I recommend that the law, authorizing the appointment 
of these agents, be suffered to remain as it is. 

Copies of the several proclamations and orders, relating to the military service, 
issued since your adjournment, are herewith submitted in a communication from 
Col. Young, my Aidde-camp, to which your attention is respectfully invited. 

The necessity of a thorough organization ot the militia of the State, must now 
be apparent to all, and your attention is earnestly invited to the subject. A plan, 
embracing my views and opinions on this important subject, will be presented for 
the consideration of the Military committee of the House, in a few days. I have 
given the matter much consideration, and hope that my labors may prove of ser- 
vice to the committee. 

In this connection, allow me to call your attention to the propriety of fostering, 
by State aid, a School for instruction in military science. Although we can point, 
with pride and pleasure, to hundreds of our accomplished officers now in the ser- 
vice, who had never enjoyed the benefit of military education before buckling on 
their swords, still, this does not prove that such schools are not necessary. Tnese 
gallant officers will all tell us, that their first duty was to study the art of war, 
and that without this study they could not have discharged their arduous and in- 
tricate duties with credit to the State or themselves. Assuming that you will agree 
with me upon this subject, I beg leave to call )our attention to the Act of Con- 
gress, passed on the 2d day of April last, entitled, "An act donating public lands 
to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of 
agriculture and the mechanic arts." 

By the provisions of this act, 630,000 acres of land is granted to the State, for 
" the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the 
leading object shall be, without excluding oth< r scientific and classical studies, 
and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to 
agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States 
may respectively prescribe." 

The act further provides that all the avails arising from the grant shall be in- 
vested in safe stocks, yielding not less than five per cent.; and that the money 
shall constitute a perpetual fund for the maintenance of the college. 

I respectfully urge upon you the acceptance of the provisions of this law, upon 
the terms and conditions prescribed in the act. 

Agriculture, mechanic arts and military tactics can be taught in harmony ; and 
in a time of war, like the present, it is difficult to determine which of the three 
branches of study is the most important. 

The acceptance of the grant will involve an expenditure of money sufficient to 
establish the college. It is impossible to fix, with certainty, upon the sum neces- 
sary for that purpose ; it is believed, however, that ^60,000 will be ample. 

Deeming this matter to be one of vital importance to the State, I invited a con- 
ference with the State Board of Agriculture, and am happy to be able to announce 
that the project meets their hearty concurrence. I commend the whole subject 
to your deliberate consideration. 

The large number of sick and disabled soldiers found about the principal rail- 



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road depots of the State, seeking tbeir homes, unattended by friends, made it an 
act of humanity to establish agencies at these points for their care and assistance ; 
and such agencies were established at Ciocinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Crestline, 
and Bellair. The expense of these agencies, together w'ith the cost of subsistence 
furnished the thousands thus relieved, amounts lo $1,937.68. 

To promote the prompt settlement of the accounts of soldiers discharged at this 
point, and at the same time to protect them from frauds likely to bs practised by 
unscrupulous agents, I directed the Quartermaster-General, in July last, to estab- 
lish a bureau in his office for this especial purpose. A copy of my order to 
Quartermaster- General Wright, and also of my letter to James E. Lewis, Esq., 
designating him as the clerk to take charge of the business, are herewith pre- 
sented. 

The report of Mr. Lewis to General Wright, and attached to his report, will 
demonstrate the wisdom of this measure. It will be seen that Mr. Lewis, at De- 
cember 15, 1862, has settled the accounts of soldiers to the number of 656, 
whose aggregate pay amounted to ^53,171 67 ; that accounts to the number of 
689 have been adjusted, and are now ready for payment as soon as the paymaster 
shall be in funds, amoun:ing to about $62,000 ; and that 685 claims are in process 
of adjustment, to an amount of nearly $78,000. These claims, of $193,000, 
have been attended to at a cost to the State of $1,250, without any cost to the 
soldier. 

The great success attending the labors of Mr. Lewis induced me quite recently 
to establish similar agencies at Cincinnati and Louisville. The agency at Cincin- 
nati I have placed in charge of A. B. Lyman, E'-q., of Trumbull county ; that at 
Louisville in charge of Royal Taylor, Esq., of Cuyahoga county. Both of these 
gentlemen are well known to be men of high character for integrity and superior 
qualifications for the duties of these positions. The expense of these agencies will 
be defrayed from the military contingent fund for the time being, and I doubt not 
will meet your approval. 

The several measures for the relief and protection of our soldiers, herein re- 
ferred to, embrace all in our power, so far they are personally concerned ; but we 
have yet the further duty to perform of caring for their families in their absence. 
We are proud to know that every neighborhood of our State is blessed with gen- 
erous and benevolent souls, who are happy in extending the hand o( kindness 
and charity to their distressed neighbors, and who will seek out those who hare 
been left by the gallant volunteers in our army, and cheerfully minister to their 
wants ; but the few unwilling to do their fnll duty in this matter should be com- 
pelled by law to perform it. I therefore recommend the levy of a special tax for 
this purpose. The act of February 13, 1862, should be continued. As, however, 
the number of soldiers in the field has la:gely iocreased since the passage of this 
act, it is necessary that the levy be increased. A rate of one mill on the dollar, 
which would raise the sum of $800,000, added to the voluntary efi"orts of the 
generous, it is believed would be ample to make the mothers, wives and little ones 
(whose natural protectors are absent battling for the support and maintenance of 
the Government which protecfs all that is dear to us) comfortable ; aud a knowl- 
edge of this fact will cheer and stimulate the soldier to further duty. It need not 
be feared that such legislation will cause the benevolent and generous to relax 
their individual efi'orts m this direction. The truly generous are never weary of 
well doing, and enough will still be found for them to do. 

Before dismissing the subjects relating to the military operations of the past 
year, it may be proper that 1 remind you that the Executives of the loyal Spates 
are co-workers with, and in a great measure agents of the authorities of the Fed- 
eral Government, in the raiding and organizing of the Federal forces. In view 
of this, I doubt not you will be glad to know, that, in the discharge of the various 



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exciting and delicate duties thrown upon me by tliese authorities, I have been able 
to maintaia entire harmony and friendly relations with them. Sincerely believing 
that the President and those who surround him have acted solely with a view of 
restoring peace and harmony to our distracted Government, and to all its citizens, 
whether North or South, I have piomptly rendered ihem all the aid in my power, 
cheerfully and diligently. Without feeling and manifesting such a spirit, the 
power of our great State, in crushing the rebellion, would have been wasted and 
Iriltered away. This spirit and determination led me, most cheerfully, to acquiesce 
in the several orders of the President denying certain privileges heretofore enjoyed 
by the people, and still highly prized by all. I allude particularly to the tempo- 
rary modified suspension of the writ of Habeas Corpus, and the order for the 
arrest of citizens guilty of interfering with enlistments and with the order for the 
execution of the draft ; and their temporary confinement before hearing or trial. 
Necessity, stern necessity, will alone tolerate such orders. This necessity, in the 
absence of State legislation, it is known to all who read, did to some extent exist 
m our State ; and the individual who will complain of the execuiion of these orders, 
under the circumstances attending them, would complain of the neighbor who 
should break open his mansion, when on fire, to save his child from perishing in 
the flames. For the honor of our State, it should be made known, that but eleven 
such arrests have been made within our borders, so far as known to me. Of these, 
Shree persons were removed from the State, four were confined for a short time at 
Camp Mansfield, and the remaining four at Camp Chase. All these confined 
wiihia the State, have been set at liberty. All the arrests, so far as I am advised, 
were maae by viitue of orders from the War Department, and but two upon my 
recommendation. 

From the knowledije I have, as to the causes of arrest, I believe the action of 
the Department was based upon sufficient grounds. That this exercise of military 
power was necessary to enable the several State authorities to raise their quota of 
troops, I have no doubt whatever ; and so believing, I most cheerfully approved 
It. It is the duty of all good citizens to submit to any and all sacrifices necessary 
to maintain our Government ; and the man who will coaiplain of the acts reteired 
to, when his neighbor on either side of him has given up forever his darling son, 
should be frowned upon by all good men. God grant that neither, again, may 
ever be called upon to make the sacrifice 1 

As this, however, may not happily prove to be the case, and as we may yet be 
called upon to raise additional troops, it is recommended that provision be made 
py law, to prevent all interference, by evil-disposed persons, with the persons 
intrusted with that duty. The Act of April 26, 1861, entitled " An Act to punish 
treason and other crimes," should be so amended as to embrace this ofiense. The 
duly constituted authorities of our Scate would then be able to take care of all 
oflfenders within the State, and thereby relieve the President of the United States 
and all acting under his authority from this, to them, unpleasant biit necessary 

Keferring to the measures you had under consideration at the time of your ad- 
journm< nt, postponed, I presume, for the want of time duly to mature the same, 
1 beg to call your special attention to Hou-e Bill No. 146, " To authorize volun- 
teers from this State, in actual service at the time of a general election, to vote 
wherever they may be," and Senate Bill No. 163, " To create the office of As- 
sistant Adjutant General and Assibtanl Quartermaster- General." 
_ The first of these measures is ba-ed upon justice to a class of our most merito- 
rious cit'z 'US. The right of participating in the election of the officers of our 
Govornmi-nt, is perhaps more highly prized by the citizen than any other political 
right or privilege secured to him by uur Constitution. I therefore respectfully 
ur^'e you to secure by law, as far as practicable, to every citizen of the S.ate who 
may be in the militruy service of the country, this inestimable privilege. 



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A prompt discharge of the business in the offices of the Af^jutant General and 
Quartermasler General, in which every portion of our State is now deeply inter- 
ested, demands early and favorable action upon the second measure referred to. 



CORRESPONDENCE ACCOMPANYING THE MESSAGE. 

The State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
COLUMBDS, Oct. 16, 1862 

John M. Fuller, Col. 21th Begt 0. V. I., Ripley, Miss. : 

Dear Colonel: — I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 
of the 9th instant, accompanying the bloody Flag of the 9th Texas Regiment, 
captured by the gallant Oriin B. Gould, a private of Company G in your Regi- 
ment, in the great Battle fought on the 4th inst., near Corinth. The brave and 
daring act of Gould, when made known to the loyal people of our State, will till 
their hearts with joy and gratitude. I am pained to learn that the wound received 
by this hero proved fatal, and that he is no longer in the land of the living, to 
enjoy the rich reward due to his uallantry. Hut, although dead, I have deter-^ 
mmed to give to his relatives and brother soldiers evidence of my appreciation ot 
his noble conduct ; and therefore herewith inclose ;\;ou a commission for him as 
Captain in your Regiment, of 'he date of your gieat Battle, October 4'.h, 1862. 

The bloody Flag sent me I have given a prominent position in the room in the 
State House appropriated to the keeping of the many trophies taken on the iieid 
of battle by the brave and loyal hearts froii Ohio, and, as the most fitting account 
of our possession of this trophy^ I attach your elegant and manly letter to the 
Flag. 

In this connection, allow me to assure you, and the brave men under your com- 
mand, that the noble bearing and gallantry of your Regiment, on that bloody field, 
is fully appreciated by the people of Ohio. Make this known to the heroes of 
your Kegimenr, and assure them that when this war is over, and our glorious old 
flag can again float over every inch of the territory possessed by the United States, 
and they thus permitted to return to their homes they love so much, they will re- 
ceive the hearty greetings of all who appreciate our glorious insiiiutiuns. 

Very truly yours, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



The State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, Oct. 23, 1862. 

To Col. , Bept 0. V. I.: 

Dear Sir :— The mode adopted by the War Department for the filling of old 
Regiments does cot meet with the success desired. 

The great trouble is that the recruiting officers sent home have their commis- 
sions in their pockets, and thus situated, encounter at every corner recruiting officers 
who have their commissions to earn There have been recruited in this State, 
within the past three and a half months, over 65,000 men, four-filths of whom 
have gone into new R-^giments, notwithstanding 1 have used every exertion m my 
power in behalf of the recruiting officers of the old Regiments. 

If commanders of Regiments in the field would send home non-commissioned 
officers or privates, with the request to me that I give them commissions, upon 



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condition that they recruit a given number of men, within a time to be specified, I 
think the ditficulty would be obviated. 

1 hfive in several insiances appointed men at home upon these conditions, but 
to my crreat surprise the commanders of the Regiments, although willing to take 
the men they br^ ught with them, have refused to assign the officer to duty. 

It is to be expected that the War Department will not delay much longer for 
the work of filling up the old Regiments, hence, to save consolidation, it is indis- 
pensably necessary that prompt and active measures betaken to fill them up. 

Th^t I may have the commission at my disposal, provided the mode herein 
suggested meets with your approbation, I will postpone the filling of any vacancies 
in your Regiment until I hear from you. 

Very respectfully yours. 

DA.VID TOD, Governor. 



The State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, Aug. 28, 1862. 

Eon. Win. Dennison, Present : 

Sir: — Y'>ur familiarity with the wants and necessities pertaining to the troops 
from Ohio, induces me to ask you to proceed at once to Cincinnati, for the pur- 
pose of a personal conference with Mnj or-General Wright. 

I have, Within the last few days, sent several of our new Regiments into Ken- 
tucky, and have directions for quite a number more for the same destination. 
They are all without tents or knapsacks, and have but a linaited supply of blankets 
and canteens. It is cruel thus to treat soldiers, and thus treated, their days of 
usefulness to the Govemment will be limited If this state of things is continued, I 
shall soon have to send well men into Kentucky to take care of the sick. 

The accoanmodations for the troops passing through Cincinnati are so limited, 
that much suffering, as well as inconvenience to them, takes place. You are 
awaie that we now have comfortable barracks for our troops at our several camps 
in the State. Whut I now desire is, that all these diffiuiliies be properly presented 
to General Wright, who will, I doubt not, provide a remedy for them at the ear- 
liest practicable moment within his power. 

Of course I am not prepared to judge as to the necessities of the service, but I 
implore Gi-neral Wright to permit our gallant troops to remain in camp at home, 
until they can be comfortably supplied with all articles necessary for the preser- 
vation of their health. 

Very respectfully yours, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 2, 1862. 

In response to several communications tendering companies and squads of men 
for the proteciion of Cincinnati, I announce that all such bodies of men who are 
armed will be received. They will repair at once to Cincinnati, and report to 
General Lew. Wallace, who will complete their further organization. None but 
armed men will be received, and such only unMl the 5h inst. Railroad companies 
will pass all such bodies of men at the expense of the State. It is not desired 
that any troops residing in any of the river counties leave their counties. All such 
are requested to organize and remain for the protection of their own counties. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



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Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 5, 1862. 
To Capt. C. W. Smith, Oallipolis, Ohio : 

I have ordered you reinforcements from Marietta. Sland firm. Tl.e people 
from the county will also come to your rescue. The enemy is not as well prepared 
to fight as you are. Let me hear from you often. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1862. 
To the Press of Cleveland, Ohio : 

The response to my proclamation asking volunteers for the protection of Cin- 
cinnati was most noble and geue;ous All may feel proud of the yallantry of the 
people of Ohio. No more volunteers are required for the protection of CiDcionati. 
Those now at Cincinnati may be expected home in a iew days. I advise the mil- 
itary organizations throuiihout the State, formed within the past few days, te kept 
up, and that the members meet at least once a Wrek for drill. Recruiting for the 
old regiments is progressing quite satisfactorily, and with continued efi'jrt there is 
reason to believe that the requisite number may be obtained by the fi teenth ( 16) 
inst. For the want of proper accommodations at this point, recruiting officers are 
directed to report their men to the camp nearest their locality, where ihey will 
remain until provision can be made for their removal. Commandini^ officers of 
the several camps will see that every facility is given necessary lor the comfort of 
these recruits. 

DAVID TOD, Guvernon 

Columbus, Ohio, Sept 6, 1862. 
To Major- General Wright, Cincinnati, Ohio : 

I have no means of knowing what number of gallant men respond-d to my call 
for the protection of Cincinnati, hut presume that they now count by thousands. 
I beg that you will see to it that they are all well cared for, and return ;d to tlieir 
respective homes at the earliest possible moment after they are no lon>ftr req'iiied 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 7, 1862. 
To Capt. C. W, Smith, Oallipolis, Ohio : 

I have your dispatch of last nii^ht. Will do the best I can for you. Can't say 
yet what that will be. Stand firm and show your blood. Should you fall I will 
efccort your remains home. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 7, 1862. 
To Major- General II. G. Wright, Cincinnati, Ohio : 

I have advices from Capt. Smith, Oallipolis, that the enemy opposite that point, 
at Buffalo, are twenty-four hundred (24uO) strong, and asking lor reinforcements. 
The Ninety-seventh (97) 0. V. I , Col. Lane, lelt Zauesvi'le for Cincinnati this 
morning. Will reach Loveland about four (4) P. M. I advise thai you change 
their destination to GuyaudoUe, by way of Marietta road. Answer. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



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Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 9, 1862. 
To Hon. B Stanton, Cincinnati, Ohio : 

I would be most happy to have Mr. Coleman provide for the sick and wounded 
Ohio troops, and will cheerfully reimburse all expenses 

*^ DAVID TOD, Governor. 

Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1862. 
To ike Press of Cleveland : 

TO THE SEVERAL MILITARY COMMITTEES OF NORTHERN OHIO. 

By telegram from Major- General Wright, Commander-ia- Chief of "Western 
forces, received at two o'clock this morning, I am directed to send all armed men 
that can be raised immediately to Cincinnati. You will at once exert yourselves 
to execute this order. The men should be armed, each furnished with a blanket, 
and at least two days' rations. 

Railroad companies are requested to furnish transportation of troops to the 

exclu&ion of a 1 other business. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1662. 
To Major- General E. 0. Wright, Cincinnati, Ohio : 

As requestt d in your dispatch of this morning, I have called upon all the armed 
minute-men of the State, requesting each to take two days' cooked rations and a 
blanket. They will pour in upon you by thousands. la addidon to this, I have 
ordered ten (10) incomplete regiments to report to you. They will number about 
eight thousand (8,0U0) men, and will be armed, but, of course, green, both officers 

and men. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1862, 

To Major-General H. G. Wright, Cincinnati, Ohio : 

You will have a very large force of minute-men, or squirrel hunters, by this 
time, and ihoubands more will arrive to-day and to-morrow. As a class, they will 
make the best soldiers in the world. Allow me to suggest that you call upon them 
to volunteer for thirty (30) days. Organize them into companies, regiments and 
bri'^ades, and clean out Kentucky, subsisting upon Kentuckians — paying all who 
Will take the oath of aJlegiunce, and confiscating the property of those who will 

not. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

Cqlumbus, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1862. 
To M(j or- General Wright, Cincinnati, Ohio: 

I have slopped all minute- men en route for Cincinnati; they amounted to 
thousinds Please give my gallant boys, now in Cincinnati, every aid in your 
power for their prompt and comfortable return home. I send you, by mail, copy 
of telegraphic correspondence with the Secretary of War. 

" ^ DAVID TOD, Governor. 



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Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1862. 
To Hon E. M. Stanton, Sec'y of War, Washington, D. C. : 

The minute-men, or squirrel-hunters, responded gloriously to the call for the 
deft- nse of Cincinnati. Thousands reached ihe city, and thousands more were en 
route for it. The enemy having retreated, all have been ordered back. This 
uprising of the people is the cause of the retreat. You should acknowledge pub- 
licly this gallant conduct. Please order Quartermaster Burr to pay all transpor- 
tation bills, upon my approval, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1862 — 8 o'clock A. M. 
To the Press of Cleveland, Ohio : 

Copy of dispatch this moment received from Major General Wright, at Cincin- 
nati : — " The enemy is retreating Until we know more of his intention and 
position, do not send any more citizen troops to this city, (Signed) H. G. Wright, 
Major-General." In pursuance to this order, all volunteers en route lor Cincin- 
nati will return to their respective homes. Those now at Cincinnati may be ex- 
pected home so soon as transportation can be secured. The generous response 
from all parts of the State to the recent call has won additional renown for the 
people of Ohio, The news which reached Cincinnati, that the patriotic men all 
over the State were rushing to its defense, saved our soil from invasion, nnd hence 
all good citizens will feel grateful to the patriotic men who promptly offered their 
assistance. It is hoped that no further call for minute-men will be necessary ; but 
should I be disappointed in this, it is gratifying to know that the call will be again 
cheerfully and ga'lantly responded to. Railroad companies will pass all volunteers 
to their homes, at the expense of the State. The Captains of each squad, or com- 
pany, are requested to give certificates of transportation to the Superintendents or 
Conductors of the railroads over which they may pass. I avail myself of this 
opportunity to renew the request heretofore made, that the several military volun- 
teer organizations, formed within the past few days, be maintained, meeting for 
drill as often as once a week at least. I have further to request, that the com- 
manders of said squads, or companies, report, by letter, to the Adjutant- General, 
the strength of their respective commands. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1862. 
To Gov. Dennison, Burnet House, Cincinnati, Ohio : 

It will not do for me to single out special cases for exchange. I am doing 
what 1 can to get all exchanged. Mustering and pay officers embarrass me greatly 
by their delay. Have arms for eight (8) regiments, and expect to get them ready 
for the field in all next week. Please give special attention to the return home of 
our minute-men who are discharged. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

■ Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1862. 
To Major- General Wright, Cincinnati, Ohio : 

Troops should be sent to Gallipolis, say two regiments. They can reach that 
point earlier from Cincinnati than from any o her point. Please let me hear from 
you. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



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Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1862. 
To Colonel John A. Turley, Point Pleasant, Va. : 

Remain where you are. Assume command unless out-ranked by some other 
officer. Keep the three (3) companies of the ninety-second (92) with you. I 
have oidered a regiment to join you from Cincim ati. Keep the government boats 
at your command. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1862. 

To Major- General H. O. Wright, Cincinnati, Ohio ; 

My advices from Charleston, Va., induce me to believe that our forces are fall- 
incr back to RavenswooJ, and that the enemy will come down the Kanawha. I 
have to advise that you send one regiment to Gallipolis at once. Gov. Pierpont, 
who is now m my office, unites with me in a dispatch to the Secretary of War, 
atskinff that Western Virgiuia may be added to your command. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



CoLDMBUs, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1862. 

To Mi'j Gtn. H. G. Wright, Cincinnati, Ohio : 

Gen. RufFner's advices cannot be as late as mine. At four (4) P. M. yester- 
day, Col. Lighiburn telegraphed that a desperate battle wao m progress near 
Charleston, that, place bemg in fl imes. At nine (9) this morning, Col. Paxton, of 
the Second (2) Va. Cavalry, says from Red House : " My impression now is, the 
enemy are on our front and right in force, seven (7) to ten thousand (10,000), 
and pressing us hard." Nothing has been heard from Col Lightburu to-day, 
from which fact Gov. Pierpoint and myself think that he is on the retreat to Ra- 
veiiswood. In view of these facts we think it advisable that you send a regiment 
there, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



LETTER IN RELATION TO REBEL FLAG. 

The State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
CoLUMBcs, June 11, 1862. 
S. L. PJulps, Lt. Commanding " Benton," 

and acting " Fieet Caj/tain," Memphis, Tenn. : 

Mt Dear Sir : I have the proud satisfaction of receiving, with your appro- 
priate autograph letter of the 7ih, a Flag with 3 bars and 13 stars, taken from the 
peak of the rebel gunboat and ram. the " General Bragg,"' so gallantly captured 
in the brilliant engagement of the 6ih instant, off Memphis. 

This Flag, with the inclosed inscripti 'n and your letter attached, shall be placed 
in the Trophy Museum ol our Capitol, as a proud memento of your most success- 
ful achievement. 

Ohio, your native Stato, received the news of your great and crowning success 
in clearing the •' Father of Waters" of traitorous obstructions, with a thrill of 
intense delight. 



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To the navy of the Union, and especially to the navy of our great inland rivers, 
must we ascribe a due share of the glory achieved in crushing out this gigantic 
rebellion. 

Permit me, in the name of Ohio, to congratulate you and the gallant officers 
and men of ihe Upper Mississippi Flotilla, for the splendid victory won before 
Memphis. 

In behalf of our people, as well as for my.«elf, I most heartily thank you for 
the great service done our beloved country, and for the honor of making Ohio 
the recipient of this trophy and mark of your patriotism. 

Most truly yours, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

INSCRIPTION. 

Flag taken from the peak of the rebel gunboat and ram, the "General Brapff" 
captured oflf Memphis, Tenn., June 6th, 1862, in the brilliant engagement between 
the Union Flotilla, Upper Mississippi, and the Rebel Flotilla, in which three rebel 
gunboats were sunk, one burned, and three captured ; only one escaping 

This Flag is a Trophy presented to his native State by S. L. Phelps, Lt Com- 
manding the U- S. Flag Steamer "Benton," and acting " Fleet C-iptain." 

Presented through David Tod, Governor of Ohio, who attaches this inscription, 
and the autograph letter of Lt. Phelps, written Juae 7th, on board the " Benton," 
oflf Memphis, 

Columbus, 0., June 11th, 1862. 



LETTERS TO PAY- AGENTS. 

The State of Ohio, Exboutivk Deptarmenti, 
CoLUMBtJS, June 6, 1 862. 
O. W. Williams, E^q., Pay a gent, Present : 

Dear Sir : — The careful, prompt and successful manner in which you hare 
conduct d your agency thus tar, induces me to ask you to proceed at once to the 
divisons of Generals Mitchell and Morgan, at Huntsville and Cumberland Ford, 
where (as you have recently learned) our gallant troops have been or are beinor 
paid off, and obtain all the allotments you can for their wives and friends at home. 
Should the routes, amount of money, and prudence make it better to return home 
with money received at one point, before going to the other, then do so ; and 
again repair to the other. Go at first to the point most requiring your presence 
in your judgment. Having full confidence in your prudence and energy, I shall 
not be more particular in these instructions. 

I desire you, if not inconsistent with your main duty, to note the condition and 
conduct of the officers and troops, so as to give me any information that may be 
useful. Yours respectfully, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



The State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, June 10, 1862. 
To Jacob Randall, Etq. : 

Herewith I hand your commission as Pay-agent, under the act of April 14th, 
1862, a copy of which is furnished you. I also hand you a copy of the law of 
2 



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FebruJiry 4tb, 1862, provid'ng for the receipt and distribution by the State and 
County Treasure rs, of all funds paid you by the soldiers. 

You will take special paios to make the members of the several regiments 
which jou may visit, thoroughly acquainted with the provisions of these laws, 
for, if understood, it will be seen that the soldier runs no risk whatever in trans- 
mitting tlirough you, to his fnends, any money that he may wish to send ; neither 
is he Buhjected to any expense. These facts, well established in ihe soldiers' 
mind?, it i> supposed, will, alone, be iuflScient to induce them to transmit through 
you to tht ir friends at home, a large proportion of thtir pay. 

From the working of the plan thus far, I am able to assure you, th^it you will 
find in the efEctrs of the several regiments, hearty co-workers with you in this 
benevolint work. You will, therefore, on your arrival at the head-quarters of 
each regiment, seek their early acquaintance. 

The Paymasters of the U. S. Army have been instructed by the Secretary of 
War, in General Order No. 61, copies of which I hand you, to afford you every 
necessary facility for the discharge of the duties of your trust. You will there- 
fore communicate freely with them, and do your utmost to maintain kindly rela- 
tions. 

You *ill avail yourself of every safe opportunity to remit the money which 
you may from tin e to time receive, to the Siate Treasury, for distribution under 
the law. You will keep me fully advised ot your whereabouts and oi the pro- 
gress you are making. 

You will ktep a btrict account of the time yuu may be engaged in the service, 
and of your expenses, and report the same to me, on the. first day of every 
month. These accounts must be in duplicate, and verified by your oath. To en- 
able you with ease and facility to keep accounts of the money you may riceive 
nod make returns thereof, I have caused to be prepared, and now hand to 
you, a suitable nuoaber of pay-books, which you are hereby directed to use. 
.Wfiile discharging this duty, it will be in your power to be of great aid and com- 
fort to the sick soliiiers whom you ra'-iy meet. I need not, on this point, endeavor 
to j?pecify in whfit manner this duty can best be performed, since your own heart 
.will guide you in this Christian duty. 

Re-pectfuliy, &c... 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

By -HoFFiiAir, Secretary. 



APPOINTMENT OF AGENT TO COLLECT SOLDIERS' CLAIMS. 

The State of Ohio, Executive Departmeist, 
Columbus, July 14, 1862. 
Oenl. Oeorf/e B. Wri^hi, Present : 

Sir : — The frf quent calls made upon m? by soldiers discharged at this point, 
for advic? and aysL^^tance in the settlement of their accounts und collection of their 
pay, and the absolute necessity of ministeiiog to their wants, to prevent their 
falJing into the bauds of unscrupulous '• chiim agents," throw upon me a burden 
whicli I iun unable to bear. 

I have th<?refcr<' to direct that you establish a Bureau in your Department for 
this special duty, at the head of which you will place Jamts E Lewis, Esq., now 
a cleik in your i ifice. You will establish such rules and regulations lor his ac- 
tions as 3 ou may deem proper. 

Respectfully yours, 

DaVID tod, Governor. 



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The State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, July 14, 1862. 
Jas. E. Lewis, Esq., Present : 

Sir : — The numerous frauds committed upon our soldiers by persons known as 
" Soldiers' Claim Agents," at points where large bodies of our discharged soldiers 
congregate, induce rae to establish ageujies at such points for their protection. 
Fully coliding in your integrity jind capacity, and also in your known sympathy 
for the heroes who luve broken down in the service of our country, I tender yoa 
the position of such agent ai the city of Columbus. You will act under the im- 
mediate instructions of Q M. Gen. Geo B. Wright, to whom you will from time 
to time report. Your comp-'nsation will be at tlw rate of S 1,000 per year, pay- 
able quartt-rly. If you accepi this position, report yourst-lf to Q. M. Gen. Wrighc 
forthwith for duty. 

R^^spectfully your% 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



TELEGRAMS RELATING TO THE DEFENSE OF WASHING TON. 

Columbus, Onro, May 25, 1862. 

To E. M Stanton, Sec'y of War, Washington, D. G. : 

Your dispatch askini? troops for Washington received. Will fend you one full 
regiment on the 27ti). For what length of time shall the new volunteers be asked 
to serve, and what number do you want from Ohio ? 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



Columbus, Ohio, May 25, 1862. 
To Reuben G. Lemon, Gkairmin Military Gjmmitiee, Tdedo, 0. : 

Astounding as the fict may be, Washington City is in imminent danger. Yoa 
will please raise without del ly, a force of live hundred (500) men, and send tbeai 
as fast as raised to Camp Caase, where they will ba organized and equipped ; 
and such as are not willing to proceed to Washington, will perform guard duly 
in place of the regiment now at Camp Cuase. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

Seat siaiilar di^patches to every county in the State. 



Columbus, Onio, May 26, 1862. 

To Supts. of Little Miami and Hamilton and Dayton Railroads, Cincinnati, 0. : 

I have ordered a Urge volunteer military force to assemb'e at Camp Chase. 
Pass them iu squads at the tJxpenss of the State, using your best disoreiioa to 
guard against ioipusition. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

Sant copies of this to Sapt. South Mich. R R , Toledo ; H. Jewett, Zanesville, 
0. ; I, J, Jewett, Stubeavile, 0. ; and Supts. of Roads at Cleveland. 



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Columbus, Ohio, May 26, 1862. 

To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Sec'y of War, Washirgton, D. C. : 

I have a temporary force raised for guard duty at Camp Chase, which relieves 
the Sixty-first Regiment. It will be rea'^'y for the field to morrow. Shall I send 
it to protect the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ? The people of Ohio are respond- 
ing handsomely to your call for additional troops. You have at Camp Thomas 
four or five hundred Regular troops. Why not order the m to Cumberland ? 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



HEA.I) QUARTERS OHIO MILITIA, 
Adjutant- Gkneral's Office, Drafting Department, 
Columbus, November 28, 1862 
Hon. David Tod, Governor : 

In pursuance to your request, I have the honor to make the following report 
in relation to the dralt in tuis State, made undtr Order No. 99 and subsequent 
orders of the War Department, and under your immediate control and direction. 
The enrollment of the militia of the Siate was m ide by the township assessors 
of the several counties, upon the request of Auditor Tayler and yourself, and 
filed with the several auditors of counties, and certified copies thereof forwarded 
to this Department. 

This voluntary service on the part of the several township and ward assessors, 
and county auditors, bhould be duly appreciated by the people of the Slate. 

The whole number of enrollments in the State, comprising all able-bo1ied ciii- 
zens over the age of eighteen and under forty-five, is four hundred and twenty- 
.live-thousand one hundred and forty-seven. 

A Draft Commissioner and a Surgeon were appointed for each county ; the 
Surgeon to examine all applicants for exemption fur disability, and the Commis- 
sioner to determine all applicaiions for exemption. If exempted, the name was 
marked on the roll by a red line. All remaining upon the roll were sufject to 
draft. About twenty per cent, of applications, and abjut ttn per cent, of the 
whole enrollment, were thus exempteo. 

The draft was made by townships and ward?, numbering fourteen hundred and 
seventy, giving to each credit for the volunteers furnished from the commence- 
ment of the rebellion to the day of the draft, so as to require each to furnish its 
due proportion of the men needed for the defen^^e of the country 

The number of volunieeis so furnished was obtained through the military com- 
mittees, assessors and au litois of the counties, and reported to this Department 
by the military committtes. 

A per cent , suppo^ed to be large enough to obtain the number required on the 
draft, was assessed upon the enrollment of each county as returned. From this 
assessment was deducted the number of volunteers furnished by the county, as 
reported by the military committee, and the deficit was ordered to be drafted. 

In the apportionment of the drait, the townships and wards were each assessed 
with their quota of the deficiency of the count}', in proportion to the enrollment 
and volunteers furnished, giving the minus townships and wards the benefit of 
the plus ones, thereby only requiring the rounty deficiency to be drafted. 

The assessment was made upon the repot t of volunteers furnished up to the first 
day of September, 1862. The draft having been postponed to the ISih day of 
September, and again to the first day of October, the several Draft Commissioners 
were instructed to deduct from the number ordered to be drafted all volunteers 
furnished to the day of the draft, and also to correct the number already reported, 
if any errors were discovered. ^ 



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Or.lers were isjn d to the Draft Cxn-nissioasrs previous to the 16th of Septem- 
ber, dc'signaliog the number t> be drifted from each towaship and ward, and 
every thing was reaily for the draft at that lime. 

The number then ordered to be drafted was twenty thousand four hundred and 
twenty-seven. Tli-! number actu-illy drifte 1 wiS twelve thousand two hundred 
and fifty-one, after deluiiiog voluateers to tliat time, and corrections directed to 
be made. 

Thirteen counties had furnishel ih^ir qa )ta of volunteers prior to the first day 
of Ssptembir, in which no draft w-is ord-sred Of the coaat,iffS in which a draft 
was ordered, thirteen furnished their quota 'ty the first of October, so that no 
draft was m ide therein. 

The Sate was divided inti seven districts, in each of which a camp of ren- 
dezvous was designated, as follows: Cimp Mansfield. Gimp Cleveland, Camp 
Zioesville, Cirnp Marietta, Cimp Portsmouth, Camp Dennison and Camp Chase, 
at each of which a Commandant was appointed. 

Six Provost Mirshals wt-re appointed by the Secretary of War, and districts 
assigned them. These Marshals were au!;horiz^d to appoint as many deputies as 
might be required, and each one appointed a deputy in each county of his dis- 
trict. 

As appears from the report of the military committees, the number of volun- 
teers lurnished for the service of the United States from this State prior to the 2d 
day of July, 1862, was ninety-nine thousand and thirty-six; and volunteered 
since then, and before the first day of September, fifty-two thousand and seventy- 
seven ; making in all, prior to first of September, one hundred and fitty-one thou- 
sand one hundred and thirteen. The number of corrections and volunteers be- 
tween the first day of September and the first of October, reported by the Drafi 
Commissioners, is nine thousand five hundred and eight, which, added to thevoi- 
unteers pr or to first of September, make an aggregate of one hundred and sixty 
thousand six hundred and twt-nty one, being the whole number of volunteers for 
three years or during the war furnished by the State since the commencement oi 
the war to the day of the draft. Of this nu-nber, sixty-on« thousand five hun- 
dred and eighty five volunteered since the 2d day of July, 1862. 

Of the drafted men, a large prop )riion have volunteered, either by themselves 
or substitutes, for three years or durin^j ihe war, leaving but a small number to 
be mu'tered into the service in the old regiments, under the order of the Secre- 
tary of War. 

Under the order di^charo[ing members of religious denominations conscientiously 
oppo!5ed to military^ du'y, upon the piyment of two hundred dollars each, three 
hundred and fi ty-nine drafted men were discharge 1 by the Draft Commi.ssioners 
and Commandants of Camps. A statement of which, by counties, is hereto ap- 
pended. 

Appended hereto is a tabular statement, by counties, showing the number of 
the enrollment, number of volunteers furnished, the number ordeied to be drafted, 
and the number drafted. 

As the object of this communication is to bring together the proceedings of ths 
draft, I append hereto copies of the several orders relating thereto. 

As far as I have been able t(j ascert «in, the expense of the draft, including 
compensation to the officers, other persons employed, and subsis ence of the men, 
will average about six hundred dollars to the county. 

The military committees of the Several counties performf*d valuable services, 
and faithfully discharged the troublesome duties thro.vn upon them by the draft, 
and for which they deserve great relit. 

The Draft Commissioners an i Surgeons of the counties had a delicate and vex- 
atious duty to perform, but I am ple^ised to state that they have fearlessly and 



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honestly performed their responsible duties, and for whicla they deserve the thanks 
of the Department and the people of the State. 

No serious difficulties have occurred in the enforcement of the draft. The 
people of ihe State have cheerfully acquiesced in i\ and those drafted, generally, 
have promptly oheyed the law and orders of the War Department, and heartily 
responded to the demand of the Government upon its citizens for its preservation. 
Those not already in camp are daily reporting themselves at their respective 
camps of rendezvous. 

I append hereto a list of the Draft Commissioners, Surgeor.s, Provost Mars^hals 
and their Deputies, find Comm;indaots and Surgeons of camps of rendezvous. 
All of which is respectfully submitttd, 

M. WELKER, 
Assistant Adjutant- General and Superintendent of Diaft. 



The State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, Sept. 1, 1862. 
To the several Mfl'Jary Commitlees : 

Finding it necessary to extend the time for the commencement of drafting the 
militia until the 16th instant, I made application to the Secretary of War for per- 
mission to extend the recruiting service for boih the new and old regiments until 
that time, and I am happy to be able to announce to jou that he has complied 
with my request. Kecruiiing, therefore, for all the new regiments now orgm- 
izing, and f.^r all the old regiments in the fielJ, may at once be resumed, and 
continued utitil the 16ih last., on the same terms and conditions, including pay 
and bounty, as heretofore. For the new regiments there are wanted about two 
thousand men, and for the old regiments about twtnty-one thousacd men ; or, in 
all, about twenty-three thousand ( 23,(J00). Can this force be raised by voluntary 
enlistments, and thereby save the trouble, expense and vexation of resorting to 
drafting in Ohio ? It is believed it can be. More than twice that nunib. r has 
been raised wiihin the past fevf weeks, and sur^Jy the gallant men of Ohio are 
cot weary in their good work The events of the pa^^t tew days clearly deuiDn- 
«trate the necessity of this large demand upon the patriotism and gallantry of the 
loyal people of Ohio Neither wards, townships nor counties should stop to in- 
quire whether or not they huve furnished their quota or share of this nation's 
defenders, but all should do all they are able to do. It may not be amiss, how- 
ever, to say, in this connection, that the estimate heretofore of thirty-three per 
cent, of the enrolled miliiia in each oistrict's proportion is entirJy too low, as 
from the returns made it is evident that it will require at least forty per cent. 
The returns we have will furnish the number of volunteers we have up to this 
date ; and, that complete justice may be done to each separate distiict, you are 
requested to furnish the commissioners of your respective counties with the names 
of all who may volunteer and be mustered iii between this time and the 16ih, 
that he may give each district due credit therefor. Said commissioner will be 
furnished with the quota due from each district, and will be instructed to dr^ift 
only such number as will make up the deficiency. 

In communities where there are no recruiiog olBcers for old regiments, the mil- 
itary committes s are authoriz'd to act as such, by jectiving the rtcruit, furnish- 
ing him subsistence, and giving him a certificate of transportation to this city, 
where he will be sworn in, equipp d, and receive his boun y, advanced pay, and 
transportation to the regiment he may wish to join. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



REPORT OF ADJUTANT-GENERAL. 



Head Quarters, Ohio Militia, 
Adtutant-Geneeal's Office, Dec. 31, 1862. 

To His Excellency David Tod, Governor and Commander-in- Chief : 

Id response to an unexpected appointment, I entered upon the duties of this 
office on the 28th day of April last. 

Pursuant to your orders, steps have been taken towards preparing a complete 
official Army Kfgister, ia which the name of every officer ani enlisted man sent 
from Ohio, to the field during this war, shall appear ; but the work has been re- 
tarded in its very first stages by the want of muster-in-rolls fur several of the 
regiments and companies. None of the muster-in or out rolls of the twenty-two 
regiments of infantry, nor of the companies of artillery or cavalry, called into the 
service for three months last year, are to be found among the records of this office ; 
and a like, but not equal, deficiency exists as to twenty-three of the old regiments 
now in the field. So, ton, of the new recruits seat to old reaimenta. But a small 
proportion of them can be traced on the records of this office, as in their cases 
muster-in rolls are not generally used. These deficiencies are expected to be sup- 
plied by obtaining certiiied copies and schedules from the War Department and 
from the different organizations in the field. 

The very comprehensive and able report of my immediate predecessor upon the 
defects and imperfections of our State Militia system, and the urgent necessity for 
the establishmt-nt of a State Miliary School, having been already communicated 
to the existing Legislature, renders further comment upon those matter-;, at this 
time, unnecessary. I bt>g to call attention, however, to what has been already so 
well presented, and express the hope that the whole system may be r vised, and 
made what the present and prospective wants of the Scate may require. 

I have the h -nor to submit herewith the Annual Report of all matters coming 
within this Department, for the year 1862, as required by law; and in this con- 
nection if is proper to say that an army register of the officers of the Ohio volun- 
teers in the United States service was published, as a private enterprise, last May, 
and a eecond and revised edition last July. Such of the Ohio volunteer organi- 
Kitions as did not appear in the last annual report from this office, nor in this army 
register, will be presented in the subjoined report; and some, that did appear there, 
have been so changed, by receiving new companies, that a republication, in part, 
is essential to show the business of the current year, and the new orgatizations, 
sent to the field. 

The gentlemen employed in the clerical work of this office merit a public ac- 
knowledgment for their persevering industry, urbanity, and faithfulness, during 
the whuie season of increased and pressing labor. They have well earued the 
confidence reposed in them. 

I have the honor to be, 

Sir, verv respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

CHAS. W. HILL, 
Adjutant- General of Ohio. 



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Headquartkhs Ohio Militia, 
December 31st, 1862. 



INCOMPLETE ORGANIZATIONS OF 1861. 

The following regiments, begun in 1861. referred to as incomplete in the Adju- 
tant-General's Report of last year, have been completed, or disposed of by con- 
solidation, during the present year, as follows: 

The Twenty-second 0. V. I., partially organized at Chillicothe, under Col. Gil- 
more, was consolidated with the Sixty-third, at Marietta. This number (the 22d) 
will appear again in the table of new regiments, where it designates a regiment, 
nearly all recruited in Ohio, and reclaimed from the Missouri service, where it 
was known as the 13th Missouri V. I. On the 1st day of July it was placed on 
the list of Ohio regiments. 

The Forty-third 0. V. I. was organized at Mt. Vernon, under Col. J. L Kirby 
Smith, an officer of the regular army. The regiment was completed February 
14ih, and was sent to the field on the 20th of February, 1862. * 

Col Smith received a mortal wound, while gallantly discharging his duty, at 
the battle of (Corinth, on the 4th day of October ; from the effects of which he 
died October 12th, 1862. 

The regiment is now commanded by Col. Wager Swayne. 

The Forty-fifth V. I. having been consolidated with the 67tb Regiment, its 
number remained unused until the last summer, when an entire new regiment was 
raised, and designated the 46th. It will appear in the table of new regiments. 

The Forty-sixth O. V. I. was organized at Worthirgton, under Col. Thomas 
Worthington. a graduate of West Point. The organization of the regiment was 
completed January SOlh, 1862, and it was sent to the field February 17th, 1862. 

Col. Worthington was cashiered September 16th, 1862, and the regiment is 
now under command of Colonel Chailes C. Walcutt. 

The Forty -ti^ht 0. V. I. was organized at Camp Dennison, under Col. Peter 
J. Sullivan. The regiment was completed January 16th, and sent to the field 
February 16th, 1862. 

The Fiftieth 0. V. I. was partially orgnnized by Colonels Ryan and McGroarty. 
In April, 1862, Col. McGroarty and his men were transferred to the 61st Regi- 
ment. 

The same number (50th) has been again used to designate an entire new regi- 
ment. 

The Fifty-second 0. V. I. was in process of organization at Camp Dennison, 
under Col. C H SarL;eaut, but owing to the necessity of having the troops in the 
field immediately, and the regiment filling slowly, the organization was broken up 
in February and April last, and the officers and men all disposed of. The com- 
panies were divided among other regiments as follows : One company to the 
Fifty-third, one to the Seventy-first, and two to the Seventy-second. 

An entire new organization, designateu as the Fifty-second Regiment, was 
completed at Camp Deiinison, under Uol. Daniel McCook. 

The Fifty-third 0. V. I. was organized in Jackson county, under Col Jesse J. 
Appier. The regiment was completed February 3J, and sent to the field Febru- 
ary 16ih, 1862. 

The Fifty -fourth Regiment, or Second Zouaves, was organized at Camp Denni- 
son, under Col. Thomas Kilby Smith. The regiment was completed on the 6th 
of February, and went to the field February 16th, 1862 

The Fifty-sixth 0. V. I. was organized at Portsmouth, under Col. Peter Ken- 
ney, and was sent to the field February 10th, 1862. 



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The Fifty-seventh 0. V. I. was organized at Fiodlay, Hancock county, under 
Col. William Mungen. The regiment was completed on the 3d of February, and 
sent to the field February 16th, 1862. 

The Fif y-eighth 0. V. I. was organized under Col Vnlenline Bausenwein, a 
German officer — a large portion of the regiment being composed of Germans. 
Three companies, recruited for the 61st, were transferred to the 58th, and thus 
the regiment was completed February 3d. It was sent to the field February 9th, 
1862. The regiment is now commanded by Lieut. Col. Peter Dister. 

The Sixtieth 0. V. I was organized at Hillsboro', under Col. William H. Trim- 
b'e, for one year, under a special order from the Secretary of War. Its organiza- 
tion was compleied on the 28th day of* February, 1862, and it was sent to ihe 
field, in Virginia, on the 1st day of April. 

It was captured by the rebels at Harper's Ferry, and subsequently paroled and 
sent to Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois, where it was mustered out of the 
service. 

The Sixty-first 0. V. I. commenced organizing at Lancaster, under Colonel 
Schleich. On the 3d day of February last, by order of the Secretary of War, the 
companies recruited for it were tran«ferred to other regiments to fill them to the 
maximum. Colonel Scbltich, and such cnmmissioned oflScers as were not trans- 
ferred with their men, were permitted to continue recruiting for the regiment. 

On the 1st day of May its organ ziiion was completed by consolidation with the 
50th and 52d Regimen s, and it was sent to the field, in Virginia, on the 27th day 
of May. 

The Sixty-third 0. V. I. was commenced under Colonel Craig, an oiEcer in the 
regular aimy, who resigned its command before the organization was completed. 
The recruits for the 22d Regiment were transferred to the 63d. Colunel Sprague, 
late a Captain in the 7ih 0. V. I., succeeded Colonel Craig in command of the 
regiment, and completed its organiz ition, and led it to the field on the 2d of Feb- 
ruary last. It has since received three compauieo from the 112th, transferred to 
v. November 6th, 1862 

The Sixty-ninth 0. V. I commenced organizing under Colonel Lew. Campbell, 
at Hamilton, and was completed at Camp Chase, on the 2-lth day of March, 1862. 
Ic was Fent to the field on the 19th day of April. Colonel William B. Cdssilly is 
now in command. 

The Seventieth 0. V I. was commenced at West Union, and completed at Rip- 
ley, under Colonel Cockerell, on the 3d day of February, 1862 Ic was ordered 
to the field on the 17th day of i ebruary. 

The Seventy-first 0. V I. was organized under Lieutenant- Colonel Kyle, at 
Troy, and took the field under Colonel Rodney Mason, on the 16ih day of Feb- 
ruary, 1862. 

This regiment has been very unfortunate. Lieutenant-Colonel Kyle, second in 
command, and a brave, gallant officer, was killed in ihe battle of Shiloh, on the 
6th of April. Subsequently, nearly the whole regiment was captured at CUrks- 
ville, Tenn., and paroled. It is now commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel George 
W. Andrews, formerly its Major. The captured officers and men have all been 
exchanged and returned to the field. 

The Seventy-second O. V. I. was chiefly recruited at Fremont, Sandusky coutty, 
under Colonel R. P. Buckland ; afterwards was quartered at Camp Chase, where 
it was completed on the 13th of February, having received by transfer two co.n- 
paniea from the 52J. It was tent to the field February 16th, 1862. 

Lieutenant- Colonel Herman Canfield, of tins regiment, was killed 
at Pittsburg Landii g, on the 6th of April. He was a brave, gallant officer. 

The Seventy-fourth 0. V. I. was commenced at Xenia and completed at Camp 
Chase, under Colonel Moody, on the 28th of February. It went to the field under 
Lieutenant-Colonel Von Shrader, on the 20th of April, 1862, Colonel Moody being 



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detained in command of Camp Chase until the 24tli of June, when be was re- 
lieved, and joined his regiment at Nashville. 

The S.venty-dith 0. V", I was organized at Newark, under Colonel Chas. R. 
"Woods, an officer of the rc-gular army. It was completed on the 2il day of Feb- 
ruary, and left for the field on the 9th ol February, 1862. 

The Seventy-seventh 0. V. I., organized at Marietta, under Colonel Jesse Hilde- 
brand, was completed on the 6th of February, and ordered to the fitld on the 
17th. It is now doing guard duty at Alton, 111. 

The Seventy-ninth 0. Y. I commenced an organization at Athens, under Colo- 
nel Constable ; was not successful, and all of its men were transferred to the 76th. 
This designation (79ih) has been again used in a new orginization, which will 
appear in the table of new regiments. 

The Eightieth V. I. was recruited at Canal Dover, under Colonel Ephraim 
R EckJey, and was completed and sent to tht^ field Ftbruary 20th, 1862. 

The Eighty-first O. V. I., though recruited from Ohio, reached its first organi- 
zation at Herman, in Missouri, in the fall of 1861, under the command of Colonel 
Thomas Morton, of Preble county (late of the 20th Ohio three months regiment), 
but remamed incomplete until October of this ytar, when five new companies, 
with over five hundred m^n, were sent to it from this State. 

This regiment never having appeared in any published register, and beir g more 
than half new, will have a place in the following table of new regiments. 

CAVALRY. 

The Sixth 0. V. Cavalry was partly recruited under the direction of Senator 
Wade and Representative Hu'chins, in Trumbull county, and in part by Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel W. O. Collins, in Highland county, as the 7th Cavalry. By special 
order of the War Di-partraent, th:-se were consolidated, and for a time formed the 
6th Regiment of Cavalry, under Colcntl W. H. Lloyd. On ti:e IS^h of March 
last, the First B.iitalion was, sent to Missouri, under Lieut. Col Collins, and is now 
serving in Nebr;.fcka. The 2d and 3d Battalions were sent to Virginia, on the 
13th of May, 1862. 

By order of the War Department, under date of September 20th, 1862, the 
First Battalion was permanently detached, and is now an indeptndent battalion. 
A new batlalion was ordered to be raised for this regiment, has bten partially 
completed, and the recruiting is still going on. 

OTHER REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY RAISED IN 1861, BUT SENT TO THE FIELD IN 1862. 



65th, 


Col 


. J. R. Lee. 


ordered to th 


e field 


Janu^iry 1 1, 


1862. 


62d, 




F. B. Pond, 






(( 


17, 




66th, 




Chas. Candy, 






(( 


16, 




68th, 




Sara'l H- St^edman, 




<< 


Febr'y 9, 




731, 




Orland Smiih, 






<i 


January 23, 




76th, 




N. C. McL.-an, 






<< 


23, 




78th, 




M. D. LeLgett, 






<• 


Ftbr'y 10, 




82J, 




Jas. Cantwell, 






<( 


January 23, 





Colonel Cantwell was killed when bravely leading his regiment in the battle of 
Antietam, August 29, 1862. 

INDEPENDENT DEPOT COMPANIES. 

On the 17th of May last, authority was given by the War Department to organ- 
ize an independent company for guard duty at Camp Dennison, and another inde- 
pendent company for 'ike service at G^llipolis. 

On the 19ih of May, an order was issued to Capt. E. Y. Brookfield to raise the 



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first company, to be called the "Dennison Guards ;" and on the 30lh of May, 
Capt. Charles W. Smith was authoriztd to raise a company for service at Galli- 
polis, to be called the " TiumbuU Guaids." 

Both cotnpanies were raised and mustered into the United Stales service for 
three years, and are now on duty. 

They will appear in the table of new regiments. 

COLUMBUS BATTALION. 

Under orders previously received, the 61st Regiment, Col. N. ScLleich, marched 
from Camp Cha^e, on the 27th day of May last, to join the army ol Major-Gen- 
eral Fremont, in Western Virginia. 

At that time there were over one thousand prisoners in Camp Chase, and the 
departure of the 61st left the Camp entirely destitute of soldiers. 

As there was no immediate prospect of a new force, sooner th-in one could be 
organized from the three months men, to come in, an improvised Battalion of 
Columbus volunteers, consisting of three independent companies, united for that 
occasion under the command of Lieut. Col Buttles, constituted the guard over 
the prisoners, from May 26ih to June 3d, when they were rtlieved by the new 
three months men. 

Measures were taken to have the Columbus Battalion paid by the General Gov- 
ernment. 

NEW THREE MONTHS REGIMENTS. 

On the 22d of M^y, 1862, some of the preliminary steps were taken towards 
organizing three new Infantry Regiments, to serve during the war. While these 
mea-^ures were pending, and on the night of the 25ih ot May, a call came Irom 
the War Department for volunteers to serve for a shorter period, and to aid in 
holding the rebels in check, while new regiments for the three years strvice were 
being organized and sent to the field. 

On the 2Gth of May the Governor's proclamation, as'iing for three months vol- 
unteers, was published in the daily newspapers throughout the State, and was 
responded to the next day, and for several days thereafter, by the atrival at Camp 
Chase of about five thousand citizens, from all of the walks of lite, each a.-king for 
permission to be enrolled and to enter the service. From these votu: teers, five 
Infantry Regiments were organized, to serve untd the 10th of Sep'ember. 

In organizing these regiments, the men were required to be tni oiled, tximined 
and mustered, and were, after the muster, permitted to elect their company cfficers, 
and as soon as the companies were organized and assigned to regiments, field and 
staff ofl&cers were appointed. Thus, before any legiment moved, a complete mus- 
ter was becured. 

A full list of all of the officers of these regiments, except the 88th, was published 
in the sec nd edition of the Ohio Array Register. 

The 84 h Regiment, commanded by Col. Wm. Lawrence, was full on the 6'h 
of June, and lelt the S'.ate on the 1 1th of June, for Cumberland, Maryland, where 
it remained on duty duiing its period of service. 

The 86th Regiment, Col. Barnabas Burns, was full on the 10th of June, and 
left the Stale on the 18ih of June, for Cumberland. Md. Afierwards it returned 
to Clarksburgh, Va., and completed ii8 period of service in that vicinity. 

The 87lh Regia^etjt, Col. H»nry B. Banning, was organized as a battalion of 
four companies, under Lieut. Co!. John Faskin, on the lOih of June ; afterwdrds, 
by order of the War Department, officers and men were allowed to volunteer, and 
be translerred from the 86.h and 88ih, which iiad organized for service within the 
State. In this manner six companies were ob'ained. Tne regiirent was full on 
the 27ih of June, and left the ttate, via Ilarrisburg, Pa., fur Briliimore, Md. ; 
was ordered to Harper's Ferry, where it remained during its period of service , 
The whole regiment was captured at Harper's Ferry, and paroled. 



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The 85th Regiment, Colonel C. W, B. Allison, organized for guard duty at 
Camp Chase, was completed on the 10th of June, and, consequent upon the 
transfers to the 87th, was reorganized on the 27ih of June. 

Oil the ISch of July a detachment of six hundred and ihirtythree officers and 
men, who volunteered for that purpose, from companies "A," '*C," "D," "E," 
"F," "G," "H" and "I" of the 85ih, and companies "A" and "C" of the 88th, 
commanded by Lieut.-Col. Sowers of the 85th, with Major Crura, Surgeon Mc- 
Bride and Quartermaster Humphrey of the 88th, and Adjutant Johnson of the 
85th, was dispatched from Camp Chase to Kentucky to assist in putting down the 
rebel raid then going on in that State. Ttie detachment proceeded to Lexington 
and Frank'ort, remained two weeks in Kentucky, and rendered timely and valuable 
assistance. 

The H8th Regimenf, Lieut.-Col. E A. Bratton, like the 85th, was composed of 
men who, under the call, volui teered for service in the State, and was more than 
full on the 14th of June; but the organization was delayed in order that men 
might be voluntarily transferred from it to the 87th. That being done, only seven 
companies remained in the 88th. One of these, Captain Daniel Brewer's com- 
pany, was sent immediately to Johnson's Islnnd, and another, Captain J. M. 
Greene's company, to Gallipolis. The other five companies remained at Camp 
Chase. In ttiese localities the companies of the 88th servt d out their lime. The 
official register of the 88th, not having betn printed, will appear in the table of 
new regiments. 

All of these three months' regiments were uniformed, armed and equipped the 
same as the three years' troops, and they were mustered out soon after their period 
of service expired. 

NEW THREE YEARS' REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. 

The Fifty second, as an entire new regiment, was commenced by Colonel Sar- 
gent on the 22 1 ot May, and a full quota of recruiting officers was soon at work 
in many parts of the State. On the ISh of June, Colonel Sargent having de- 
clined further eflbrts. Captain Daniel McCook was designated for the Colonelcy. 
On the 15th of July, by order of the Governor, be led such new troops as could 
be assembled into Kentucky, and assisted in driving out Colonel Morgan's gueril- 
las. In view ot this service, authority was given to commis-sion Colonel McCook, 
as of July 15Lh. The regiment was mustered at Camp Dennison on the 21st of 
August. 

The Fiftieth Regiment was commenced, under the auspices of Colonel Jonah 
R Taylor, on the llth of June. It appears by the rolls to have had minimum 
strength on the 23d of August, and was mustered at Camp Dennison on the SUlh 
of August. 

The Forty-fifth Regiment was commenced June 14th. Lieutenant-Colonel Ben- 
jamin P. Runkie, then of the ISth 0. V. I., was designated for the Colonelcy, 
and, aided by those appointed lor oliier positions, engaged actively in recruiting. 
The regiment reached minimum strength on the 14th, and was mustered at Camp 
Chase on the 19th of August. 

DIFFICULTIES IN RKCKUITIKO. 

The 45tb, 50.h and 62d Regiments had almost the exclusive range of the whole 
State for a recruiting ground, with no competition until after the middle of July. 
For a month and a half they met with little success. 

After the middle of July nearly seventy thousand men volunteered in this State 
for the war. 

These three regiments (45ih, 50th and 52d), with all of the direct efforts that 
could be made in their favor, had to be helped out by transfers and consolidations, 



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and at last were beaten in the race, for earliest date of minimum strength, by 
several of the new regiments that began to recruit after the fifteenth of July. 

LOCAL REGIMENTS. 

Experience had demonstrated that this Sti.te would not fill her quota of the 
three hundred thousand volunteers, called for on the 2d of July, io time, unless 
some different system of recruiting should be adop'ed. Some plan must be de- 
vised that should indicate with certainty ibe just responsibility of every part of 
the State ; and every community must be made conscious thut it had a duty to 
perform. The regiments must be localized. Every rtgimentHl distiict must be 
protected in its rights to its own men, and then it must know that its failure to 
produce its quota, could be charged to no other district It was believed ibat the 
troops thus raised would have important advantages. They would more com- 
pletely represent communities— would be more easily and effectually watched 
over and aided, whilst in the field, by their home ftiends — would more justly ap- 
preciate their responsibility, and consequently feel a higher emulaiiun. And 
when, after entering the field, it should tie necessary to recruit a local reg'ment, 
it would have a decided advantage, aided, as it would be, by the utiited sympa- 
thies and home influence of its own district. 

During the fall of 1861 military commit'ees had been appoint d, and were on 
duly in all of the counties of the Scale, and had rendered important and timely aid 
in raising the new regimt nts After issuing the foregoing order, it was as ertained 
that the military committees of 1861 had generally preserved their organizations. 
Measures we-^e taken to supply new members where there were vacancies. 

In the mouths of May and June, and up to the date of General Order No. 20, 
the current impression with the community that a large fo/ce of new regiments 
would be required, brought to this department several thousands of app'icaiions 
for office, supported by multitudes of tes-timonials. These applications and testi- 
monials were arranged, classified and regi tered, wiih the view of selecting officers 
from them for new organizations; but the order localizing the new regiments ren- 
dered it impracticable to use these recommendnlions, and, taking it for granted 
that those most de-erving would receive proper atiention at home, ibese candidates 
were, ou the 11th day of July, remitted to the mi itary committees of their re- 
spective districts, by the following telegraphic order, on that day sent to the daily 
newspapers in the larger towns and cities : 

Headquarters Ohio Militia and Volunteers, 

Columbus, Ohio, July 11th, 1862. 

County military committees in each rCiiimental district are requested to afsem- 
ble, as soon as possible, at some central place, and arrange for the organization 
of ten companies, so ihnt company combinations can he made, and names promptly 
submitted to the G...vernor for company officers, ■ nd a regimental dis rict commit- 
tee oryan'zed for consultation as to field and staff appointments, and tu take the 
most efficient means to raise and complete a regiment. 

County and regimental district committees will please report promp ly, and 
keep this office fully advi-ed of their doings 

Second Lieutenants will be mustering officers, and must have qualifications for 
that duty. 

The press throughout the State will please copy. 

CHAS. W. HILL, Adjt.-Gen Ohio. 

The military committees and tlie people of the several districts responded 
promptly and nobly to the call made upon them With hardly an excep icn, 
the most patriotic emulation prev-iiKd throughout the Stale. The nouiinees for 
appointments were generally men of ability and high character, and many of 



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them were experienced in military service. Regimental districts vied \ri(li each 
other, as did the company districts, in the confe-t for early success in furtisliing 
their respective quotas, and everywhere the mo^t gratifying re&ults were attained, 
A. most b'uniifiil harvest was being gathered, and labor was scarce and wages 
high in all the industrial pursuits throughout tlie State. 

But the patriotic impulse of the people would not pernoit private interests to 
stand in the way of public duty, and every necessary sacrifice was made — made 
at once, and made cheerfully. 

ADDITIONAL LOCAL REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. 

The call of August 4th, for 300,000 more troops, would give place for seven- 
teen more infaniri regiments from this Slate, and the following measures were 
taken to raise them : 

On the 12.h of August an order was issued tp raise the llOtb Infantry in the 
counties of Greene, Claike, Miami and Darke, to rt-ndezvous at Camp Piqua. 
This is the same district that produced the 94ih. Nine compinies of the 110th 
were cumplt;te oij the 3 J day of October, and on the 19th day of October the 
regiment went to the field, under the command of Col. J. Warren Keifer. The 
lemh company is being raised, and now has sixty men. ^ 

An order was also issued, on the 12th of August, to raise the 111th Regiment 
in the same counties from which tbe 100th was recruited, and to rendezvous at 
Tokdo. In ten dajs the regiment had about two hundred men more than maxi- 
mum strtngti, and the committees of that dis riot applied for leave to raise a 
third rugiaitat ; but the time limited by the War Department to undertake new 
infantry regiments had elapsed, and the leave could not be granted. 

While ibis command was organizing, Maj Zinn asked and obtained permission 
to lead a battaliun, con&i>*tiow of his own recruits, with volunteer cffic rs and men 
from the 85ih and 88lh Regiments, to the fielJ, to aid iu protecting our southern 
border, and in driving the rebel force from Kentucky. He lett Camp Chase 
September lOih, with 240 men, and remiiaed on duty in the field until S.ptem- 
her 23J, wht n he returned, under orders, to have the oBScers and men of the 
85th and 88t,b mustered out, their period of service having expired. 

It i.s graiit')ing to know that the Hvfman Battalion and the battalion of Oov- 
ertior's Gaaids are, in habits and department, and in the maintenance of correct 
discipline, as well as in attention to drill and garrison dutv, a credit to thi> service. 
It is not to be said of them that they setk to avoid the field. They will always 
be ready to go when their services are more needed elsewh^ere. 

ARTILLERY— NEW BATTERIES. 

On the first of last April, Ohio had in the field a fall regiment of artillery, with 
twelve !«ix gun batteries, and also sixteen independent batteries, making twenty- 
eight in all. Since that time, one battery, the iSth, has been broken up, and four 
new indepenihnt six-gun batteries, with maximum strength, have been raised, 
equippi d, Jiiid added to this arm in the service ; giving a total artillery force now 
in the army from this State ot thirty- one battel ies and one hundred and eighty- 
six guns. 

1 he 17i'h Independent Battery, Capt. Ambrose J. Blount, was authorized July 
12th, orgHuized at Dajton, August 21st, and sent to the field in Kentucky, Sep- 
tember 3 I. 

Thf- 18th Independent Battery, Capt. Charles C. Aleshire, was authorized 
July lo'h, crgai.'Zfd at Gallipolis, September I3:h, and sent to the field in Ken- 
lucky, Oct iber 3d. 

Tue 2uih luuept ndent Battery, Capt Louis Smithnight, was authorized August 
21st. L ke the 107ih Regiment of Infantry, it is chiefly German, and was raised 



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by authoiity of the War Department, to serve under Mhj.Gcti. ?igel. It was 
organized October 16th, and ordered on the 29!h inst. to leave this day for tem- 
porary service in K..-ntucky, under Maj.-Gen. H. G. Wright, but is boon to go east 
and report to Maj -Gen. Sigel, 

The rosters of these new batteries will be found in the proper table. 

INCOMPLETE BA.TTERIE8. 

Addilioual independent batteries have been authorized, and are now being 
raised, as follows : 

Twenty-first Battery, Capt. Eugene A. Osborne. Paincsvillo, Oct. 1st. 
Twenty -second Battery, Capt. Henry M. Neil, Columbus, Nov 8lh. 
Twenly-third Bat'ery, Capt. Conrad Garis, Columbus, Nov. 6th. 
Twenty-fourth Batte»y, Capt. James W, Patterson, Toledo, i\ov. 13th. 
Tbese four batteries will average nearly half fu'l at the date of this report. 

NEW CAVALRY ORGANIZATIONS. 

Seventh Cavalry.— On the 21st of Aueust, the War Department granted per- 
mission to rai.se and organize a full Regiment of Cavalry for three y«^ars, from the 
counties of lismilton, Cltrmont, Brown, Athens, Scioto, Lawrence, Gdlia, Meigs, 
and Washington ; the intention being in its earliest service to make the command 
useful in protecting the southern border of Ohio against rebel r-iids and incur- 
sions. The regiment so authorized has been raised and is designated as the 
Seventh Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 

The first recruitiog appointment for this regiment was issued Augu-^t 25'-h, and 
on the 18lh of September a minimum regiment had been raised and was early 
on duty. It.s organization was complete iNovember 11th. It went to the field in 
battalions, aud is now serving near Lexington, Kentucky. 

The table of new regiments will show its full organization. 

SHARP SHOOTERS. 

In 1861 three independent companies of Sharp Shooters were raised in this 
State, and sent to the field as ♦' Birge's Sharp Shooters." They will appear in 
the proper tab'e 

On the tl\\\ of September of this year, the War Department authorized the 
Governor to raise ten aviditional icdependent volunteer companies of this arm, to 
serve for three years. Three companies have already been organized, designated 
i-e.-pectively the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth. 

The Fourth company, Capt. Jacob Flcgle, was raised in the counties of Cler- 
mont, Brown, Highland and R )S8, and was mustertd Sept 29ch, arid sent to the 
field Dec. 4th, to serve under Maj.-Gen. Ro.^ecrans. 

The Fifth company, Capt. Gersham M. Barber, was raised in Cuyahoga and 
adjacent counties, alter Oct. 7ch, and mustered Dec. 2d. 

The rixih company, Capt. Charles H. Coe, was raised after t 23d, in Lick- 
ing and adj icent counties— had minimum strength Nov. 16. h, and was mustered 
on the 3uili instant. 

The 2)ersonnel of tbese new companies and their success as maiksmeo justify 
high expectations of gallant service ia the field. 

Tlie Fifth c rapany, Capt. Barber, and the Sixth company, ('apt. Coe, are wait- 
ing at Camp Cleveland for their arms. 

In the tarlypart of October, twenty-seven recruiting appointments wfre made 
in different j)aris of the State, to raise the other companies. Many of these offi- 
cers failed to secure rf.cruits to a suffi:ient number, who could stand the test of 
marksmanship, and abandoned the effort. 



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Others went wiib their men, or permitted ihem to go into other organizations, 
so that the number remaining to be mustered as sharp shooters, so far as can be 
gathered from last reports, will not probably exceed 320 enlisted men. 

re:ruiting for old regiments. 

Throughout the whole season, the utmost eflPort has been made by the State 
authorities to f-icijitate and encourage recruiting for the old regiments, not only by 
the ordinary modes, but, outside of these modes, means have been taken to raise 
detachments and full companies, and send them to such of the old regiments as 
would receive officers with a nuaober of men sufficient to constitute for them a 
proper command. 

Men raised for regiments in the field through the ordinary recruiting channels 
are not reported to this office, nor are tbey placed on a muster-in roll as at the 
first organization — consequently there is no mode of obtaining a proper record of 
these recruits for this iffice, except by transcripts from the War Department, or 
from the respective regiments. But it is intended soon to obtain these irans^cripts. 
Without their aid, it is impossible to lell wiih accuracy what amount of 'orce has 
been added as recruits to organizations previously in the field ; but those who 
have given the mo.st attention to the question of a correct estimate place the num- 
ber ot these recruits at 24,383 duiins; the last eiyht months of 18G2. 

FITKESS OF APPOINTMENTS. 

It has already been staled that steps had been taken towards the selection of 
officers for new orgaciz .tions, when the necessity of localizing the regiaents be- 
came apparent. 

The military committers of countie'? and districts at once proceeded to make 
nominations for field, staff acd line officers, anl their nominations were promptly 
approved, with scarcely any exceptions. In many cases, officers and enlisted 
men, berving in the field, were nominated for poi-itions in the new regiments, and 
as fast as the lists could ha prepaied and sent on, applications were made to the 
War Department to huve these nominees mustered out of the old regiments, so 
that they might aid in raising their new commands. 

The War Department replied, layiog down the rule, that these new organizi- 
tions to which these officers were to be assigned, must first be complete, and the 
commissions actually issued, before the desired discharges could be given. 

The reply goes on to say : — " Tlie neces^ity for this course has arisen from the 
numerous complainfs by colonels of regiments, that their commands are thus con- 
tinually being i ordered less effective ; and although no ob^tacle is intended to the 
advancement of worthy men, it is not deemed advantajjeous to the service to de- 
tach them from duty with their respective regiments, until the new pcsiticns to 
which they may be assigned are really available for them " 

This rule prevented the nominees, then serving in the field, from gettiag home 
in time to aid in recruiting. 

Anxious that our new regiments should have able and experienced officers, the 
applica'ions for discharges, based upon the nominations received, were respect- 
fully persisted in by the Govemor and by this Department, and a very few 
discharges were obtained. Oa the 18th of August, in response to the Governor's 
nnewed application, the folio sving telegram was received : 

*' To the O^jvtrnor of Ohio : Do you still wish all the commissioned ( fficers and 
privates discharged for whom jou have applied since August first ? If Jiot, name 
ihe exceptions by letter. Offi ers now on duty with the armies of McClellan and 



83 

Pope cannot at present be detached. Any officers of the old regiments not now 
present with these two armies may be allowed to receive commissions of Colonel, 
but nothing else, at the request of the Governor. Submit list of those you desire 
to be thus appointed." 

This defeated the applications in favor of Lieutenant Chas. H. Ross, nominated 
for Colonel of the 97th (afterwards detached when it was too late), and of Captain 
William E Haynes, 8th 0. V I , nominattd for the 100th ; the former then being 
in the army of Major- General Pope, and the latter with Major- General McClellan. 
Not disposed, however, to lose the services of these valuable officers, although 
in the pressing emergency of the times the commanding officer of each regiment 
ovffkt to have been on duty from the commencement, still other selections were 
delayed until the 28ih of August, before which these regiments had twice been 
under orders to proceed at once to the field. The Colonel finally appointed for 
the 97ih, had been recommended by the military committees of his district for, 
and appointed commandant of Camp Zanesville. and wnile serving in that capacity, 
was selected by a large majority of the line officers of the regiment as Colonel of 
the 97th. On their solicitation he wa-* appointed. 

The Colonel of ihe 100th was an officer of well-known reputation, then serving 
as Major of the 84th, at Cumberland, Md. 

The list of new Infantry Regiments contains the following appointees: 



46th. 


Colonel Runkle, 


late Lieut. -Colonel 13th 0. V. L 




62d. 


Colonel D. McCook, 




Captain on General Staff. 




79th. 


Colonel Kennett, 




Lieut.-Colonel 27th 0. 


V. L 


83d. 


Colonel Moore, 




Captain 5th 




91st. 


Colonel Turlev, 




Lieut.-Colonel 22d and 81st 




9 2d. 


Colonel Van Vorhes, 




Quartermaster 18 th 




94lh. 


Colonel Frizell, 




Lieut.-Colonel 1 1th 




98th. 


Colonel Webster, 




Lieut -Colonel 25th 




99th. 


Colonel Langworthy, 




Captain 49th 




99th. 


Colonel Swayne, 




" 15th u. a. I. 




100th. 


Colonel Groom, 




Major 84th 0. V. L 




103d. 


Colonel Casement, 




" 7th 




106th. 


Colonel Hall, 




Lieut.-Colonel 24th 0. V. L 




106th. 


Colonel Tafel, 




Captain 9th " 




108ch. 


Colonel Limbcrg, 




" in Kentucky regiments 


110th. 


Colonel Keifer, 




Lieut.- Colonel 3d 0. V. L 




11 1th. 


Colonel Bond, 




67ih " 




115-h. 


Colonel Lucy, 




Captain 32d 




116th. 


Colonel Wushburne, 




25th " 




11 8th. 


Colonel Mott, 




" 31st " 




120th. 


Colonel French, 




Lieut.-Colonel 65th " 




121st. 


Colonel Reid, 




Brig.- General of Militia. 




123d. 


Colonel Wilson, 




Lieut.-Colonel 15th 0. V. L 




124ch. 


Colonel Payne, 




Captain in Illinois regiment. 




126ih. 


Colonel Opdyke, 




" 41st 0. V. L 




126th. 


Colonel Smith, 




Capt. 6th U. S. I., and Col. 


l8t O. V. L 



These gentlemen had established reputations as able and experienced officers. 
A similar remark might be made as to many of the appointments in lower grades 
— Field, Staff and Line. Of the officers selected from civil life, it may be safely 
said that they were men of intelligence and ability, standing well where they were 
best known, with every prospect of being useful and efficient. Take the appoint- 
ments through, they will suffer nothing in comparison with any equal number, in 
the volunteer service, from this State or any other. 
3 



34 

Abstract of Enrolled Militia and Volunteers and Drafted Men in Ohio, from the 

county returns. 



Counties. 





Number 




Number ol 




Number 


cf 


Number 


volunteers 


Number 


of 


volunteers 


ordered to 


md correc 


drafted. 


SDrollment 


to the Ist 
September. 


be drafted. 


tions to Ist 
of October. 




3,920 


1,428 


137 


164 




3,793 


1 411 


105 


139 


• • • • 


4,033 


1,322 


289 


86 


203 


5,945 


2,129 


238 


146 


9S 


4,297 


1,963 


.... 


• • • • 


• . • . 


3 282 


1,102 


210 


46 


164 


5,973 


2,217 


172 


71 


101 


5,127 


1,753 


294 


165 


129 


6,544 


2,759 


«... 


• • • * 


• • • • 


2 615 


850 


189 


64 


135 


4,112 


1,493 


152 


212 


• • • • 


4,838 


1 ,860 


75 


102 


»♦-.-« 


6,191 


2,295 


177 


201 


,,,, 


3,910 


1,424 


139 


41 


98 


5,738 


1,8:<0 


465 


256 


209 


4,299 


1,490 


227 


29 


198 


4,5-24 


1,161 


642 


62 


580 


14,36) 


4 874 


869 


569 


300 


4.913 


1,503 


45S 


141 


317 


2 5 <5 


813 


202 


39 


16; 


4 4:}0 


1,721 


46 


15 


31 


4,223 


1,532 


157 


94 


63 


4,878 


1,888 


60 


35 


25 


3,243 


1,278 


18 


39 


, , , , 


7.841 


3,105 


31 


371 


• . • • 


2,792 


931 


185 


90 


95 


3,^32 


1,288 


244 


35 


20S 


2,711 


983 


100 


42 


58 


5,099 


1,889 


150 


25 


125 


3,961 


1,4(5 


138 


138 


• ... 


39,926 


14,7i)5 


1,175 


1,529 


• . • . 


4,!56 


1,260 


404 


27 


377 


3.077 


1.197 


35 


55 


. . . . 


3 2J7 


1,098 


215 


10 


205 


1,959 


7(14 


78 


24 


5( 


4,755 


1,711 


185 


4 


181 


2,935 


1,195 


.... 


.... 


• ••a 


3,522 


9(i2 


447 


41 


406 


5,318 


1 914 


2112 


153 


4! 


3.2 > I 


1 058 


230 


172 


58 


4,379 


1,856 


.... 


. - - . 


• • • 4 


4.981 


1,630 


361 


59 


SOS 


2 579 


915 


88 


29 


5S 


4,(162 


1,^52 


.... 


« • • * 


, , , , 


6.595 


2,2(18 


430 


69 


361 


3,924 


1,6(5 


• - - . 


.... 


• . . . 


5 496 


1,704 


493 


206 


267 


5,918 


2,1)3 


223 


419 


• • • ■ 


2 909 


1 .095 


71 


43 


2^ 


4,^95 


1,501 


45? 


80 


377 


3 213 


9.9 


356 


116 


24(] 


3,>^58 


1,112 


431 


48 


383 


4,736 


1,716 


177 


177 


« • . . 


2 530 


814 


198 


5 


19: 


5 814 


2,120 


205 


341 


, , , 


4 4^9 


1,694 


100 


39 


6 


fc,9J9 


2,822 


755 


93 


w. 



Adams 

Allen 

Ashland ... . 
Ashtabula. .. 

Athens 

Auglaize . . . . 

Belmont 

Brown 

Butlrir 

Carroll 

Champaign. . 

Clarke 

Clermont . . . . 

Clinton 

Columbiana . 
Coshocton . . . 
Crawford .... 
Cuyahoga . , . 

Darke 

Defiance 

Delaware . . . . 

Erie 

Fairfield . . . . 

Fayette 

Franklin . . . . 

Fulton 

G.iilia 

Qeuugti 

Qreene 

Guernsey . . . 
U.arniltoa. . . . 
Hancock . . . . 

Hardin , 

Harrison . . . . 

Henry 

Highland . .. 
Hocking . . . . 

Holmes 

Huron 

Jackson . . . . 
Jeffdrson .... 

Knox 

Lake 

Lawrence. . . , 
Licking . . . . 

Logan 

Lorain 

Lucas 

Madison .. . . 
Mahoning. .. 

Marion 

Medina 

MtisB 

M.rcer 

Miami 

Monroe 

Montgomery. 



35 



ENROLLMENT AND DRAFT IN OBIO— Continued. 



Counties. 



Number 

of 

Guroliment. 



Number 
of 

volunteers 
t ) tbe ibt 
September. 



Number 
ordered to 



Number of 
volunteers 
and correc 



be drafted liocs to Isi 
ofOctober 



Number 
drafted. 



Morgan 

Morrow 

Muskingum. 

Mob e 

Ottawa 

Paulding. . . 

Perry 

Pickaway. .. 

Pike 

Portage 

Preble 

Putaum . . . . 
Riohlaud. .. , 

Rosa 

Smdusby. . , 

Scioto 

Seaeca 

Shelby 

Sturk 

Summit 

Trui-buU... 
Tui arawa3. 

Union 

Van Wert . . 
Vin',i)n. .... 

Warren 

Washington 
Wayne . . . . 
Wiili.ims . . , 

Wood 

Wjaudot ... 

Total 



,872 

,l)-2(l 
,«17 
,587 
,025 
,104 
294 
353 
42(» 
575 
459 
,b7l) 
,853 
,387 
,797 
,497 
,fi03 
,910 
,07 (J 
997 
,'57 
,(l5f) 
,l7i 
446 
352 
0b9 
,78« 
175 
fi99 
3i2 



423,147 



l,30i 
1,179 
2,314 

9()l 

575 

458 
1,145 
1,933 
l,(i60 
l,2()l 
1,307 

869 
1,9711 
2,G-^7 
1,4M3 
2,116 
2,"0l 

9!I0 
2,477 
1.6 »2 
l,!t.n 
l,7:i9 
1,161 

685 
1,0112 
1 ,842 
2,-.^43 
1,847 

975 
1,487 
1,304 



237 

232 
4?9 
483 

58 



503 
124 
114 
377 

'351 

"iw 

52 

686 
411 
461 
564 
62 
182 

"298 
J91 
467 
295 

'"is 



65 

29 

182 

145 

21 

"52 



190 
37 
39 

150 

163 
94 
63 
11 

14i 
55 

218 

140 

9 

31 

'246 

8(5 
98 
71 

"i2 



151,301 



20,427 



9,508 



179 
20;^ 
3« 
339 
3f 

"u 



313 

71 
2iW 

'isi 

'i2T 
41 

511 
35C 
24j 
424 
53 
151 

'5% 

lUT 
otf 
224 



12,2i>l 



ASSIGNMENTS OF DRAFTED MEN. 

The following assignnnents of drtfted militia, to old regimonts, will give th» 
dispositions so far us drafteii ir.en have been mustered and assigned. 

Uiher assignments have be n ordered as fast as the absent drafted men shall b* 
brought in : 

DRAFTED MILITIA ASSIGNED TO OLD REGIMENTS. 



jit Camp Cleveland. 

November 20. 1862, to the 6ih Regiment V. Cavalry 69 mea. 

20, '• •• 38ih •' O. V Infantry 83 " 

•• 20, " " 'IKt " ♦♦ 11 •« 

<• 20, •' •' 4ii ♦' " 23 •• 

'♦ 20, " •* 72i " «• 44 *• 

Total 230 



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SUMMARY OF OHIO TURBE TEARS* TROOPS ORIOINALLT SEKT TO THB FIELD. 

The necessity of r condensed statement furnishing the information contaiced in 
Ibe table next following, has long been telt. It would hare been much more 
gratif\ing if oth^r informalion, such as the casualties of officers and eLJisted men, 
by deaths, resignations and discharges, and the additions by recruits, after going 
to the field, could have been presented in this connection. But the data in hand, 
as to those matters, was so meagre and unreliable as to be comparatively value- 
less. 

It is not intended that the files and records of this office ohall long be deficient 
In tliestt particulars 

Obio'h part of the pending struggle for rational existence, and the extent and 
promptness with which ber si ns have volunteered, and their relations and friends, 
ftt ev^-ry risk and saciifice, have hied them on to the post of duty and of danger, 
will appt ar m the following table and rccapitulati ns with all the accuracy now 
attainable : 

RECAPITULATION OF ORIGINAL STRENGTH. 

THREE M0NTU3 INFANTRY IN 1861 AND 1862. 

t2 Regiments in April, 1861 22,000 

6 " June, 1862 4.513 

Total — 27 Regiments three months Infantry 26,513 

THREE YEARS IFFANTRY. 

78Rf^gimentsin 1861 and before April, 1862 71,202 

S companies Huffman's Battalion, before April, 1862 2U2 

40 Regiments lor 3 years, under calls of July and August, 1862. 37,417 
Independent Battalions and Depot Companies, since April, 1 862 . 79 1 

109,612 

Total of Infantry, equal to 1 46 Regiments 1 36, 1 25 

SHARPSHOOTERS. 

t companies for 3 years service, in 1 86 1 278 

3 «« 3 " 1862 279 

Sharpshooters enlisted, not jet organized 350 

629 

Total of Sharpshooters 907 

ARTILLERY. 

2 Batteries, 3 months service, in 1861 200 

1 Itiguueot, 12 Batteries, 3 years service, in 1861.... 1,800 
■16 Independent " " " 1861.... 2,441 

4,241 

4 " ** " " 1862.... 606 

4 ** ** " *' organizing.. 300 

906 



Total of Artillery 6»347 



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CAVALRY, 

2 compatiies, 3 mo ,ths service, in April, 1 86 1 1 80 

4 J ndependent companies, 3 years service, in 1 86 1 352 

1 '♦ squHdron, '•' " " 197 

6 Regiments, " " ♦' 6,006 

Ist Independent Battalion, " " " 367 

6,922 

2d " " " " 1862 390 

1 Regiment, " " " 1,204 

9th and 10th Regiments, " " incomplete... 1,617 

3,111 

Total of Cavalry 10,215 

RESUME. 

Total 3 months men ofall arms in 1861 and 18 >2 26,893 

" 3 years " «' before April, 1862. 82,845 
*• ♦• since April, 1862 42,854 

Total of original organizations of all arms J 52,592 

Add estimated number of recruiis sent to organizations in the 

field, up to May, 1862 6,500 

Add estim;it "d number of recruits for organizations in the fi-ld, 

enli-ted in last 8 months ofl 862 24,333 

Add drafted men assigned to old regiments 1,796 

" *♦ expected to be brought in and assigned.... 350 

Estimated number of drafted men discharged (ornot held) for 

physical disability, want of residence, alienage, religious 

scruples, and ran a fl^ay 4,6 1 7 

Total 1 90,228 

From which deduct the estimated number of three months men 

of 1861 and 1862, re-enlisted, and therefore twice counted. 15,500 

Grand total in Ohi > organizations, omitting the 4,617 drafted men 

last mentioned 170,121 

The total draft was 12,251. Of these, the 5,488 men not above accounted for, 
are believed to have volunteered in old, or new three years' org'^niz itions. 

From what has been presented ab )ve, it appears, that out of a population of 
2,339 698, and an enrollment of 425,147, as the atjgre;:/ate of white males wilhia 
the S:ate, between the -^ges of 18 and 45 year.-s, 167,965 have volunteered in our 
own organizations to put down reb; llion and sustain the old flag as the symbol of 
freedom, and of our nation's power, unity and honor. 

In addition to the 170,121 men placed in the service in her own organiza'ims, 
Ohio has contributed very largely to the; Ri'guUr Army, and also \o the Navy 
and Gun Bolt s.-rvice ; and in several of the early Kentucky and West Virginia 
regimrnts, the men of Ohio conslicuted the main strength ; and to those regiments, 
since they entered the; fi«ld, recrui's from this St Ue have been drawn, by friends 
and acquaintances serving there. 

luduna, too, has complimented the Buckeyes by consenting to receive many 
hundreds of them into her gallant regiments. 

It has been seen that the Ohio regiments, as a general rule, were nearly or quite 
maximum in strength. 



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RECAPITULATION OF APPOIKTMKKTS AND C0MMI6SI0NS. 

Appointments and commissions to threp months* men in 1861 1989 

Appointments and commissi, ns issued in 1861, aUer June 1st 2267 

Add 6 per cent, for duplicates 113 

2380 

Appointments and commissions issued in the first 4 months of 1862. . 1911 

Add 6 per cent, for duplicates 95 

2006 

Appointments and commissions issued in the last 8 months of 1862. . 4162 

Add 20 per cent, for duplicates 832 

4994 

Sumber of recruiting appointments issued since May, 1862, on which no 

commissions have yet issued. . . 1 156 

The duplicate issues were occasioned by interruptions of mails, loss of packages 
im transit, and papers and baggage. 

The per cent, of interruptions and losses this year is estimated to be four times 
ttiat of last year, the troops being less accessible and tbe casualties far greater. 

VOLUNTEEER AND RESERVE MILITIA. 

The existing organizations of V* lunteer and Reserve Militia of this State are 
BO much reduced and so very few and ifnperfect, that they promise little, if any, 
advantage to the public service, and, exctpt in a very few cases, their present 
utility remains to be discovere(i. Doubtless for these reasons, and in anticipation 
of legislation that should work an entire change of the present militia laws, no 
place was given in the annual report from this department, last jear, to our 
State militia organizations. With like anticipations, and for the same reasons, 
fche same omission occurs in this jeport. 

On the 12th of October last. Major General H. Fifz Randolph, commanding 
•be 6'h Division 0. M. and V. M , reported to this office that, (n the 22d of Octo- 
ber, 1861, he ordered an election of Brigadier- General of the 2d Brigade in his 
Divitsion, to be held on the 16th of November, 1861 ; but the order was not 
obeyed, and therefore he had appointed and sworn into office as such Brigadier- 
Genera), the Hon. Thomas W. Hartley, pursuant to the 52d section of the militia 
law of March 28'h, 1857, and therefore required that a commission be issued to 
Thomas W. Barilay as of August 15ih, 1862. 

A parallel case was presented in an appointment by Major- General James M. 
Rowe. 

These assumed appointments were believed to he inconsistent with section six 
of the " uct for the further organization and discipline of the militia and volunteer 
militia," passed March 23(1, 1859, and ihe commissions asked for have been 
withheld, the appointments being considered illegsil. 

But was this Sec. 52, in the matter referred, ever valid ? By Sf:C. 2, Art. IX, 
af the C( nstitu'ion, Brigadier-G. nerals are to '*be elected by the persons subject 
to military duty in their respective districts." Commanding officers may appoint 
their stafi' officers (Sec. 3, same Art.), but they cannot appoint other commission- 
sd officers. A military organization diflfers from a civil organization in this : 
that in a military organizttion, whoever is the senior commissioned officer, 
whether he be a General, Field, or Line officer, necessarily commands, whatever 
aaay be his grade. 

And in case of absence or vacancy of a General, Field, or Line officer, in a 
particular command, a case could fcaidly aiise where lie deficiency could not be 



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supplied by detailing some other oflScer, already in the service. I submit, there- 
fore, thnt the clause in section 62, above referred to, is not only unconstitutional, 
but entirely unnecessary, and inconsistent with the fundamental principles of a 
military organization, and, to avoid misapprehensions and diflSculties, should be 
repealed. 

With much respect, I have the honor to be 

Your Excellency's obedient servant, 

CARS. W. HILL, 

AdjutaDt-General. 



REPORT OF THE QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL. 



Headquartbrp, 0. V M., Quartermaster General's Office,) 
Columbus, Ohio, January 1st, 1862. J 

To His Excellency David Tod, Governor of Ohio : 

Sir: I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the Quarter- 
master's Department of the Siate of Ohio, from my last annual report, to Decem- 
ber 31st, 1862. 

At the beginning of the year 1862, it was hoped and believed that little more 
would be required of this department, than the adjustment and settlement of the 
accounts and liabilities for the large expenditures of (he nine preceding months ; 
and, as far as might be required, aid the General Govercment in the inspection, 
repair, and issue of arms to the troops of our own State, at that time not fully 
provided with serviceable weapons. Contrary to these expectations it has been a 
year of great activity, labor and responsibility. 

In the month of November, 1861, an arrangement had been concluded with 
the Federal Government, by which the State was to be relieved of all ordinary 
Quartermaster's duties, and it was assumed that the manufacture of ammunition 
would very soon be limited to the Government arsenals. Hence small appropria- 
tions were asked for of the Legislature, for this department, and no estimates fur- 
nished based upon the magnitude and variety of work thrown upon the office. 

But for the arrangement made with the General Government for the assump- 
tion of a greater part of the expenses incurred in the fabrication of ammunition, 
and the liberal share of your military contingent fund bestowed upon this de- 
partment, together with the use of funds derived from the collection of transpor- 
tation furnished to soldiers, the department would have been compelled to forego 
a large amount of service and labor rendered the General Government, which it 
now seems could not have been dispensed with. 

A careful examination of the service performed in this department compared 
with the expenses incurred will, I trust, satisfy you that the department has been 
economically administered, and good results realized. The work of preparing 
the accounts for settlement with the General Government was prosecuted with as 
much vigor and dispatch as the complicated and multifarious nature of tbe ac- 
counts would admit of. It was not until about the 1st of July, 1862, that tha 
accounts were fully stated and filed with the Third Auditor of the Treasury at 
"Washington, Upon their preparation, the duty of their settlement devolved 
upon tbe Auditor of State, who has since that time relieved me from all further 
care in the matter. 

soldiers' claim aoekcies. 

The numerous discharges from disability occurring after the winter campaign 
of 1861-2, developed the want of some system by which the broken-down and 
disabled soldier could obtain from the Government the amount due to him for 



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previous service, without sacrificing a large and unreasonable portion of his hard 
earninjis to unscrupulous und avaricious agents and attorneys, ever ready and 
eager to undertake the collection of pHy, bounty and pension, at ra'es of per- 
centage pronaising little to the si Idier, but in the aggregate an unprecedented 
income, proportioned to the talents of the t ager undertaker. 

So appart^nt and annoying did this wicktd practice become, that for several 
weeks one of the clerks in this department was dt^tailed to aid, free of charge, all 
cases br. ught to my notice, of discharged soldiers, seeking bettiement with the 
Government 

Findmg the applications so numerous, and the saving to the soldit-r eo great, 
your Excellency, as 1 ihink wisely, and with great benevolence, app )inted James 
E. Lewis, E-q., then a clerk in my oflBce, a special agent for the procurement of 
back pay, bounty and pensions due to di.^chargi-d soldiers. For the admir; ble 
working and good results of this agency, I beg to call your atttntioo to the full 
an sa'isfactory report of Mr Lewis, herewith submitted. That similar good re- 
sults will arise from the recent appointments of Royal Tay'or, Esq , agent, ai Louis- 
ville, and A. B. Lyman, Eeq., at Cincinnati, and J. C Wetmore at Washington 
City, where mniiy of our soldiers are detained in hospital?, 1 ha'-e no doubt. 

I also submit herewith the report of your Aid-de-Camp, Col. B P Baker, in 
New York City, where many Ohio soldiers have been, and are detained in hospi- 
tals. From this report, and the many letters received from Col. Baker, it will be 
seen that this agency has been managed with great prudence and energy, and 
with like good results. Many other f^gencies have been maintained at points within 
and outside of the State, more especially lor the care of, and attention to our sick, 
disabled, and straggling soldiers, who in their transit from or to their homes, miss 
railroad connections, and require lodging and food. The Soldiers' Home, at Cin- 
cinnati, the history of which is so well knowr, and which has received the encour- 
agemerit and aid of the State, is the most promment, while others on a small scale, 
but having the same benevolent purpose, have been maintained at Columbus, 
Cleveland, Bt-llair, and other points, with excellent results. 

As britfly explaining the nature and duties of ttie agencies at this place, (Cin- 
cinnati, Louisville, Washington and New York,) I submit the following copy of 
my letter of instructions to the Louisville agent: 

Office of Quakterm aster- General of Ohio, 
Columbus, 0., Dec. 7ih, 1B62. 

Royal Taylor, Esq : 

Dear Sir, — The Governor having appointed you an agent for the settlement of 
claims of Ohio soldiers, and required you to report to me for duty, I submit to you 
the following general instructions : 

You will proceed at your earliest convenience to the city of Louisville, and open 
an office, convenient for the business. 

It will be your duty to familiarize yourself with the condition and wants of all 
Ohio soldiers within the hospita's of Louisville and its immediiite viciniiy, and all 
who may hereafter arrive, or who may call upon you. 

Your principal duty will be to examine and provide for the settlement of their 
claims ag^.inst the Government, upon their discharge from the service. In all 
cases, where a full military history, or descriptive roll, cannot be obtained upon 
discharge, so as to obtain from the Paymaster the full pay due them, I advise you 
to refer them to Captain A. B. Dod, Columbus, O. ; for which purpose, when 
necessary, \ou may furnish them transportation, on my tickt ts to Columbus, charg- 
ing the same to the soldier, to be deducted from his pay at his final settlement. 

I band you herewith a book of transportation tickets, signed in blank, with 



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printed instructions how to use ttem ; also printed blanks, upon which you will 
make weekly report to me of the use made of each ticket. You are at liberty to 
sell these passes only to private soldiers destitute of money, on furlough, or hold- 
ing discharges ; or to friends of sick or deceased soldiers, accompanying them or 
their remains home. In cases where you furnish transportation to soldiers report- 
ing to Captain Dod, you will immediately rpportto me the transportation furnished, 
omitting that from your weekly report. You will also report your transportation 
8old, and that furnished on credit, separately. 

The State has already furnished a large amount of transportation to Ohio sol- 
diers, which is charged on the hooks of this Department, but not yet collected. 
You will report, therefore, to this office the names of Ohio soldiers, in any of the 
hospitals above referred to, who may apply to yon for aid, and I will at once 
notify you if any charges stand against them here. 

James E. Lewis, Esq., has been acting as agent at this point for several months. 
For the present, you will adopt his system as f^r as possible, using simihr blanks 
and instructions. You should cultivate the acquaintance and friendly co operation 
of the Military Commander at your post, the Medical Director, Hospital Surgeons 
and Paymaster, with all of whom you will have business relations, of interest to 
yourself and the soldiers. 

You will arrange, if possible, with the Paymaster to settle no claim of an Ohio 
soldier, exon-pt upon my certificate t^igned by you, that no transportation has been 
furnished by the Slate of Ohio, or upon deducting the amount that has been fur- 
nished. 

You will communicate freely with me, from time to time, for any instruction or 
assistance you may need in the discharge of your duties. 

Very respectfully, 
(Signed) GEO. B. WRIGHT, 

Quartermaster- General. 



ARMS ISSUED TO OHIO TROOPS. 

TOTAL ISSUES TO ARTILLERY. 

6-pounder bronze field guns, riSed 84 

6 " ♦' " smooth 30 

12 " " howitzers 2 

6 " steel guns, rifl-d, "Wiard's" 16 

12 •' " •• " 8 

12 " bronze field guns, "Napoleon" 10 

3-inch wrought iron rifle guns, " Phoenix" 14 

Total 164 

Of the thirty. two Ohio batteries in service, six have been armed directly 
by the Uuited States, or without the interposition of State authoriiits. 

The number of guns i^bued to these batteries is 36 

Making total number of guns issued to Ohio batteries in the field . 200 

TOTAL ISSUES TO CAVALRY. 

Sharp's carbines 964 

Joslyn's " 650 

Gallager's " 600 

Total carbines 2,014 



4a 

Colt's pistols 1,161 

Starr's " .., 700 

Remington's pistols ♦ 2,727 

Joslvn's " 999 

Whitney's " 250 

Total pistols 6,837 

Light Cavalry sabres 7,334 

The following three months' regiments (now mustered out of the service) were 
armed as follows : 
14lh Regiment — 800 U. S. percussion muskets. 

180 Eufield rifles musket. 
15lh Regiment — 800 U. S percussion muskets. 

200 altered to percussion muskets. 
16th RegioQcnt — 800 U. S percussion muskets. 

180 Enfield rifle muskets. 
17th Rpgiment— 900 U. S. percassion muskets. 
18th Regiment— 988 " 

TOTAL ISSUES TO INFANTRT. 

XJ. S. percussion muskets, smooth bore 1 3, 1 1 8 

" altered to percussion •' 4,547 

" percust-ion mu kets, rifled, 69 cal 10,498 

" Springfield rifle muskets 1 2,675 

Enfield rifle muskets 33 429 

Vincennes rifles, sword bayonet 980 

Pondii's rifle musket, 69 cal 4,870 

French " 69 and 71 cal 4,850 

Austrian " 54 cal 20 178 

" " 68 cal 4,700 

Saxony " 3,378 

Prussian " 69 cal 1,620 

French " 57 cal 980 

Prussian smoi th bore musket 3,098 

Total muskets and rifles 118,821 

Of the Ohio regiments, the armament of which is not included in above 
statement, the 22d was armed in Missoun ; the 28tb, 64th and G5th 
were armed directly by the United States ; the 60ih, 106th and 108th, 
out of arms assigned to General Judah, commanding Camp Dennison; 
the 70th and 77ih received thtir armament from supplies issued by 
the State to the United States ordnance officer at Paducah. The 60th, 
a one year's regiment, cow out of service, received its arms directly 
from the United Slates. 

Estimated number of arms in hands of above regiments 7,600 

Total number of arms issued to Ohio Infantry 126,321 



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Head-Qdabters, Ohio Volunteer Miliha, 
Columbus, June 5, 1862. 

FOR THE BETTER PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC ARMS. 

The Governor and Commander-in-Chief directs the publication of the follow- 
ing instructions : 

I. The arms and accoutrements issued by the Quarterma'ster- General of Ohio 
are the property of the General Government, and must be accounted for to the 
Chief of Ordnance at Washington, as if received directly from United States 
oflScers. 

II. Special attention is directed to the following paragraphs from the Revised 
Regulations for the Army for 1861, governing the issue of, and responsibility for, 
ordnance stores. 

(Par. 1389,) " The Commander of each company or detachment will be ac- 
countable for all ordnance and ordnance stores issued to his command. The 
Commander of each Post will be accountable for all ordnance and ordnance stores 
at the Post not issued to the company or detachment Commander." 

( Par 1390 ) '♦ Commanding officers of volunteers in the service of the United 
States shall return anJ account for ordnance- and ordnance stores in the use of 
troops, as rtquired in the regular service, and all arms and equipments issued to 
such volunteers, shall be ch'irged against the person to wh( m the issue is made, 
on the mu<ter-roll or pay account, to be accouuted for to the Mustering and In- 
specting officer, before reeiving pay, during service, and on his discharge." 

(Par 1393 ) " When charges on account of ordnance stores are made against 
a soldier, the property return shall give his name, and the pay-roll, or account in 
which the charge is made " 

(Par. 139 j.) " Arm-chests are to be preserved and accounted for, as other 
ordnance stores." 

(Par. 1395 ) "Every officer commanding a regiment, corps, garrison or de- 
tachment, shall make at the end of February, April, June, August, October and 
December, a report to the Chief of Ordnance, stating all damages to arms, equip- 
men s and implements belonging to his comman 1, noting ttose occasioned by 
negligence or abuse, and naming the officer or soldier by whose negligence or 
aouse the said daraaojes were occasioned " 

III Regimental Qaartermasters or other Staff officers are not proper account- 
ing officers for ordnance and ordnance stores ; the entire re.«pansi(>ility rests with 
Commaniiing officers of Regiments, Posts, Companies and Detachments. 

The current condition of all arms and accoutrements, in the hands of enlisted 
men, is as^^ertained by the regular Sunday morn ng inspecli ns. See Regulations, 
Article XXX. Also, Article XIII. paragraphs 93, and 102 to 109 inclusive. 

IV. It is pariicularly erjoined, that enlisted men shall not be allowed to take 
their arms or equipments with them when temporarily absent on leave from their 
Regimental, Post, or Company Quarters, or on lurlougb or in hospital. Sentinels 
must he cautioned to permit no man to pass outside the lines, with arms and ac- 
coutrements, unless on duty. 

Commanding officers of Posts, Regiments, Companies and Detachments, are 
required to give this order the utmost publicity. 

By order, 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, 
(oluarlermaster-General, Ohio, 



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RETURN OF ARM-CHEST3. 

The special attention of commandiDg officers of Ohio troops is directed to the 
following order : 

Ordnance Office, War Department, 

Washington, D. C, Dec. 29, 1862. 

By direction of the War Department all arm-chests not required by command- 
ing officers of companies, regiments, or posts, wherein to keep surplus arms, will 
be returned to the nearest Arsenal or Depot with proper invoices in duplicate, the 
officers in charge of which receipting for the same. 

Officers to whom such chests have been issued will be charged with their value 
if they are destroyed or retained. 

JAMES W. RIPLEY, 

Brig.- Gen., Chief of Ordnance 



CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE WAR DEPARTMENT. 



CoLUEBUs, 0., April 30lb, 1862. 
Brig. Oen. J. W, Ripley, Waskivgton, D. G. : 

General : I beg to call your earnest attention to tbe condition of a portion of 
tbe Ohio Cavalry m regard to arms. Of tbe .six regiments now in service, but 
one, the tirsf, was sent into the field wiib a complete armament. 

The 5.h Cavalry, Col. W. H. H. Taylor, is now before the enemy, at Pitts- 
burg Landing, without a pistol, and with but one hundred and ten carbines to 
over eleven hundred en is;ed men. 

To this regiment I issued six hundred and seventy-five Joslyn pi.stols, but 
tbey have been condemned as uofit for service, and turned over to the U S Ord- 
nance otfictr at that post. An agent of the Slate, who has just arrived from the 
reyimtnt, brings a pressing appeal from Col. Taylor, and indores his statement 
and these of his • flScers, that the pistols are utterly worthless, and that the regi- 
ment, though daily under fire, has nothing but sabres and a few carbines to rely 
upon. Titeir chagriu at this condition of affairs is gr<.^atly enhanced by the fact 
that cav.iliy rcgiraentb from other States, serving under the same general com- 
mand, are iully supplied with Sharp's carbines and Colts's pistols. 

May 1 not hope to secure, through you, prompt attention to this important 

maittr ? 

I am, sir. 

Very respectfully. 
Approved, GKO. B. WRIGHT, 

David Tod, Governor, Quar. Mas. Gen., 0. 



Columbus, 0., June 25th, 1862. 
Btig. Gen. J W. Ripley, Washington, D. G. : 

General : I find that m^ny of the Enfield rifle muskets, recently issued to me 
through the purchasing officer at New York, are quite imperfect, and I have had 
to give ihem a cooaplele overhauling before issue to troops. 

I'he ramrods are particu'arly dt^teclive, breaking upon the applicatron of the 
elii'htest lorce. But, very few of them would stand the test prescribed by the 
ordnance m inual. To remedy their defects in this particular, you will please 
ord- r t » bti t^ent heie three hundred ramrods of the required pattern. I am ad- 
vised by C aut. I'rispin that they can be ubtaiaed in New York 

1 also uted ihree hundred bayonets for the same arm to supply disasters in 

service. 

I am. Sir, 

Very reppectfuUy, 

Your obedient servant, 
GEO. B. WRlGiir, Quar. Mas. Gen,, 0. 



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CoLCMBCs, 0. Jul) 9lh, 1862. 
Brig. Qen. Jas. W. Ripley, Washington, D. C. : 

Genehal : Please advise me if I can obtain from Government six twelve 
poiinrler howitzers, and how soon they could be shipped. 

Will you further oblige me by stating what arrangements are bting made to 
supply the new levies with infantry arms and equipments. For the quuta of the 
State, I have on hand small arms for about six regiments, and accuuirements for 
fifteen or sixteen. 

I will tbaik you to give me this information at your earliest convpnience. 
Permit me to remind you that should any additional cavalry be called for, I 
have on hand some six thousand sets McClellan tqu'pments complete. 
I have the honor to be. 

Very re8pecl;fully, 

Your c bedient servant, 
GEO. B. WRIGHT, Quar. Mas. Gen., 0. 



Columbus, 0., July 14ib, 1862. 
Eon, E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Washington, B. C. : 

Sir : It i^ important that the State of Ohio should be promptly supplied with 
arms for the new quota of troops now organizing. 

I beg to call your attention to the fact, that of the eighty thousand small arms 
placed in the hands of Ohio infantry, but two regiments have recused lided mus- 
kets of Government fabrication. 

I desire that twenty thousand stand should be placed at mj dispos'-tl at the 
earliest possible moment, and I trust that if not all, at least a lair proportion of 
them shall be of the Springfield muskets. 

The arms should be forwarded to Gen. Geo. B. Wright, Quartermaster- General 
of Ohio. 

I am, Sir, 
^ Very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

DAVID TOL), Governor. 



Columbus, , July 19th, 1862. 

Oen. C. P. Buckingham, Washington, D. C. : 

Please see that my order for arms is promptly attended to. I have but a thou- 
sand stand on hand. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

TELEGRAM. 

Wasuington, D. C, July l9lb, 1862. 



OiiV. David Tod: 

Ten thousand Austrian r He muskets have this day been ordered from New York 
to Culumbas to arm militia. On May 28i,h ten thousand Eiifijid liUes were seat 
to Obio — where are they ? 

P. H. WATSON, Assist. Soc'y War. 



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RKPLT. 

Columbus, 0., July 21, 1862. 

P. H. Waison, Assistant Secetary of War, Washington, D. C. : 

Of the ten thousand Eafields sent Mny 23, I have issued to three three months 
regiments, and one tbree years regimtnt, three thousand four hundred ; to the 
ordnance officer at Wheeling five hundred ; to Col, Burbank and upon his order, 
Cincinnati, five thousand. Balance on hand eleven hundred, 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q M. General, 0. 

Columbus, 0,, August 5th, 1862. 
Brig. Gen J. W. Ripley, Chief of Ordnance : 

Sir: Having every reason to believe that the twenty-two regiments of volun- 
teers for. three years service, now being organized in Ohio, will be recruited to 
their full number by the 16ih inst., I have the honor to request that twenty-two 
thousand servicea le arms and twelve thousand sets infantry accoutrements be 
forwarded to me for the u?e of said troops. 

From the t nor of your letter of the 19ih ult., I indulge the hope that arms of 
the best qualiiy, iucludiog a fair proporiion of Springfield r.fle muskets, will be 
provided for these troops. 

A number oi the new regiments are now going into camp, and it is quite proba- 
ble some of them will be complete within ten days. I hope, therefore, that the 
stores herein specified will be forwarded at the earliest possible moment. 

Very respectluUy, 

GEO. B," WRIGHT, Q. M. General, 0. 

It is indispensably necessary to the prompt raising of troops that the above 
requisition receive immediate attention. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

Columbus, O , August 6, 1862. 

Col. C. P. Wolcjtt, Assist. Sec'y of War, Washington, D. C. : 

My Dear Sir : — I enclose copy of a letter this day addressed to Brig. General 
Ripley, making requisition for arms for our new regiments. 

I rely on )ou and General Buckingham to secure for Ohio a full supply of the 
best arms. Oblige me by giving this matter the benefit of your influence at head- 
quarters. We need them immediately. 

Very truly, 

Your friend and obd't serv't, 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q M. General, 0. 

Columbus, , August 5, 1862, 
Oen. G. P. Buckingham, Washington, D. C : 

Mr Dear General : — I enclose copy of a letter this day addressed to Brig, Gen. 
Ripley, raakinij requisition for arms for our new regiments. May I not depend 
upon you to give this matter your personal attention and influence, and thus secure 
for Ohio a full and immediate supply of good arms ? Leaving this matter in your 
hands, 

I am, very truly. 

Your friend and obd't serv't, 

GEO. B. WRIGHT. Q M. General, 0. 



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TBLEQRAM. 

Columbus, 0., August Olh, 186*. 
Brig. Oen. Jas. W. Ripley, Washington, D. C. : 

Please see my requisition, 6th inst , and hasten forward stores. Volunteers 
coming in with a rusli. Svtral regiments in camp, wailing equipments. Your 
prompt attention will oblige 

GEO. B. WRIuHT, Q. M. General, O. 

TKLEGRAU. 

WAsniNGTON, D. C, Aug. 8, 1868. 
Gen. G. B. WrigM : 

By direction of the Secretary of War, nine thousand Austrian rifle muskets, 
calibre 58, have been ordered to be sent to Capt. Dod, Mustering Officer, fur use 
of Onio volunteers. 

J. W. RIPLEY, Brig. Gen. 

C0LUMDU8, 0., Au». 12, 186a. 
Brig, Oen J. W. Ripley, Chief of Ordnance, Washington, D. C. : 

General : — I was somewhat surprised at receiving your dispatch and letters^ 
announcing the shipmtr'nt of ordnance stores to Capt OoJ, Mustering Offi;er, for 
di^trlbuliun to Ohio volunteers. While I would not o^^ject to be relieved irom this 
labor, I deem it my duty to advise you that, while the order without explanation 
carries an imputation against my department, wliioh I challenge invesiigmion to 
substantiate, I feel assured that you and your department will furnish conclu>ive 
evidt nee cf the prudent and judici jus care and istue of all ordnance stores received 
by me Irom the General Government. 

A still greatt r objection to this order is the fact (hat Capt. Dod has no means 
of storing, handling, overhauling or repairing arm^, while ail thesu facilities are 
enjojed by the State. 

Opeiations at the State Arsenal are thoroughly s^ystemaltzed, and carried on 
under the same rules and regulations prescribed for Uaited States Arsenals, and 
I flitur myself an examination of my returns ia your cflice will show a perfect 
system of accountability. 

I do not hesitate to say that an issue of ordnance stores through Capt. Dod to 
the Obio troops now being raised would prove a most fruitful source f i difficulty. 

1 there/ore respectfully suggest that, so fur as Ohio is concerned, the order 
should be lesciodid, and 1 trust your infiueuce will be exerted to that tScct. 
I am, General, 

Very respectfully. 

Your most obd't, 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q. M. General, 0. 

To this letter the following reply was received : 

WAsniNOTON, Aug. 19, 1862. 
Gen. Geo. B. Wright, Q M. General, Columbus, : 

Sir : — I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the l?th ins^t , and to 
say that the shipments of ordnance stores were made to Capt. Dod in obedience 
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to a general order from the Wir Department, requiring all stores for volunteers 
coming into the service to be placed in charge of the United States mustering 
officer. 

So far as this department was concerned, no reflection was intended to be made 
on the official conduct of any one, much less on yourself, whose official relations 
to this department have been entirely satisfactory in every respect. 

Hereafter, and until further instructions from the War Department to the con- 
trary, ordnance stores intended for the volunteers of Ohio will be sent to your 
address. 

Respectfully, 

Your obd't serv't, 

JAS. W. RIPLEY, Brig. Gen , Chief of Ord. 



Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 13, 1862. 
F. B. Watson, Assist. Sec'y of War, Washington, D C. : 

Sir : — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of yester- 
day. 

I beg to assure you that our State authorities entertain no suspicions of injus- 
tice from the General Government, but are simply anxious to have our troops 
well and promptly armed. 

As I must 9gain remind you, no Springfield rifled muskets have ever been is- 
sued to Ohio, and we would not think that we had our fair proportion of them. 

Our estimate of Enfields received covered the entire istue to ihe State since 
the war ; not from any particular date. And in reference to the last Jot of ten 
thousand received, my correspondence with the Ordnance Bureau will advise you 
that they were not only net equal to Spritigfields, but a very indiSerent and im- 
perfect arm. (See letter to Gen, Ripley, July 3d, enclosing copy of statement 
of deficiencies in Enfields ) 

I regretted exceedingly parting with the Enfields to Col. Barbank during the 
Morgan raid ; but the issue was made upon h'S ujgent requisition, and was 
deemed by the Governor an imperative necessity. 1 had no other serviceable 
arms to issue, and hope soon to recover them back. 1 thank you for the Spring- 
fields, and will make a prudgnt distribution of them. Our regiments, however, 
will be maximum in number, and as the Governor desires that they shall be fully 
armed and equipped before they leave the State, we may have to make a further 
requisition on you. 

As regards the Springfield smooth bores, I have no doubt they would prove 
more serviceable than many rifles we have issued ; but volunteers have a strong 
prejudice in favor of the rifles. 

As you are aware the Springfield and Austrian rifles, 58 calibre, have been 
consigned to Capt. Dod. The Governor has not yet been advised of a compli- 
ance with his request that those, together with all orduance stores for Ohio troops, 
should pass through my hands. 

I am, Sir, 

Very respectfully, 

Your ob't serv't, 
GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q. M. General, 0. 



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TELEGRAM. 

Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 16, 1862. 
P. R. Watson, Assist Sec^y of War, WaskirKjton D. C. : 

Telegram received. The Governor directs me to say that he will have fifty 
new regiments to arm by the 1st day of September. 

We are sending many recruiis to old regiments, of course without arms. We 
want arras and nccoutrements for fit'ieen more regiments. Can't you give us 
Springfields or Enfields for them ? 

"GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q. M. General, 0. 

TBLEGRAM. 

Columbus, Ohio, Aug, 19, 1862. 

P. E. Watson, Assist. Sec'y of War, Washington, D. G. : 

I have no reply to my dispatch of 16th inst., about additional arms and ac- 
coutrements for Ohio regiments. Please answer. 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q. M. General, 0. 

TELEGRAM. 

Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 1, 1862. 

Oen. Ripley, Chief of Ordnance, Washington, D. G, : 

How about the cavalry equipments ordered on the 27th ? Several companies 
are already raised, and calling for them. 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q. M. General, 0. 

, telegram. 

Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 2, 1862. 
Oen. Riphy : 

Telegram received. I have the horse equipments on -hand. Can't you send 
me carbines ? I am nearly out of arms for issue to our new regiments. Can't 
you send me five thousand Springfields or Enfields at once ? 

GEO. B WRIGHT, Q. M General, 0. 

telegram. 

Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 7, 1862. 

P. H. Watson, Assist. Sec*y of War, Washington, D. G. : 

Please see my telegram to Gen. Ripley, dated Sept. 2, with reference to more 
arms fur Ohio troops. We have a large number of regiments organized and 
ready for their arms. Can't you send me five thousand stand immediately ? 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q, M. General, 0. 



Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1862. 
P, n. Watson, Assist. Secretary of War : 

Sir: — I regretto advise you that the fifty-four hundred French rifle muskets 



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Just received from New York are not the character of gucs I had hoped would 
have been is^su d to the remainder of our three years' troops. 

They Vary in calibre from 70 to 72, are we-k in the locks, defiri^-nt in appen- 
dages, and a i.unober of ihtm are old altered flint locks — a few only have bretch 
•iglits. Altcgeiher it is a very mixed lot ; and the Govtmor says he will not 
Bend his in>o^s into the field with such arms. 

I betr yi u to lecolUct that Kx-Governor Dennison was promised when in 
"Washington that, in two or three weeks frrm that time, the Depariraent would 
be able to i sue to Ohio a furiht r supply of Springfield ride-mu^keis. Miy 1 not 
hope that its instructions in this regard may soon be carried out ? Please give 
ID« an early and, if potsible, a favorable answer. 

Very rtspectfully, 

Approved : GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q M. G. neral, 0. 

David Tod, Governor. 



TEUEQRAM. 

CoLUMDus, Ohio, Sept. 24, 1862. 

To his ExoeUency David Tod, Governor of Ohio : 

(Care of Hon. E. M. Stanton, Sec'y of War, Washington, D. C.) 

How ab ut ca) bines f r 7th Ohio Cavalry ? Have been promised by War De- 
partment, but not received. 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q. M. Geneial, 0. 



Columbus, , Oct. 1st, 1862. 

B'ip. Gen. nphy. Chief of Ordnance, WashirgUn, D. C ,' 

Genekal : — You Tviil pleaf^e order to he sent to Gno B. Wright. Q ^I Genera! 
of Oliio to arm and equip threes reg'ments of cavalry and one r«giMient of tlarp- 
fclnKiteis, Huilu riz d by ilie War Depajtment to be raited in ibis Siaie, the Ici- 
lowiug orticles ot ordnance stores, vii : 



3 600 Sharp's Carbines ; 
3 tiOO (%.li's or Whitney's Pistols ; 
3 t^OU Lght. Cavalry S^hre8 ; 

3.6UU Scfs Horse h]qu'pmeni8 complete, McClellan pattern ; 
3 boo CaJfiioe S'lngs ; 
3,tiO»i Sihie Belis and Pla'es ; 
S (5(10 Pisuil ( anridge- boxes ; 
3 6 I'lttuI belt Holbttrs; 
3 6i »^ap I't uches ; 

3 (.10 S.*«iid Knots; with supply of anr.muniticn for rarhires nrd p'Hcls ; 
W£0 H'tle.» lor sbarpshoo'ers, t-anr.e as uted by Beidan'b Re^iiumi ; 
1'6j fctiB Accoutien.eLts J« r dilu>, wiih supply of hniOiUniiuu ior liflts. 
Very respi ciluhy. 

Your I bd't ve rvant, 

SiOUCJHTON BLT'S, 
Apprrvfd : Asbist. Q Al. GtLtral of Ohio. 

David Tod, Goveitor, 0. 



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TBL£ORAM. 

CoLUMDDS, 0., Oct. 6lh, 1862. 
Brig. Oen. C. P. Buckingkan, Washington, D. C. : 

What provision fs made for arming dr ifted m^-n ? We want ten thousand arms 
and acooutreinents for tUem, and five thous^nrt for volunteer rpyiments, 

G. B. WKlGIir, Q. M. Gdueral, 0. 

TELEGRAM. 

CoLOMDUs, 0., Oct. 7tb, 1862. 
Brig. Gen. 0. P. Buckingham, Washington, D. C. : 

We have about five thousand French rifles, about four thousand of •which may 
be made serviceable, th )Ugh I would pr fer not to issue them if others can bi 
got, atul one thousand Eutield's. 

These are all the atms we have We will have fifteen thousand men, including 
drafted anil vo'unleers. It is diflScult to say how many of each, as the drafted 
men are rupidly enlisting and furnishing subsliiutes, who tnhat for three years. 
We want the arms immediaiely. 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q. M. General, O. 

TELEGRAM. 

Columbus, 0., Oct. 18, 1862. 
Bon. P. H. Watson, Assist. Sec'y of War, Washington, D. C : 

Wh<»t is the prospect for the arms telegraphed for to Gen. Buckingham, October 
6th and 7ih ? Our men are in camp without aims, and anxiously calling fur ihem. 
Please answer. 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q M. General, O. 



To this telegram the following answer was received : 

WASBiNaxoN, Oct. 18, 1862. 
Geo. B. Wright, Q. M. General : 

You ask wliat is the prospect for arms telegraphed for to Gen. Buckingham, 
Oct. tith and 7ih. Previously, you telegraphed that the French lifld muskets, 
sent for six regiments, were unserviceable, which caused surprise, because in quil- 
ity an 1 cost both tliey are classtd next to Eutield's. Au officer was sent to in^pect 
them, who repoits that ihey are serviceable and good arms. If you prefer smooth 
bore muskets to toem, they can be sent in exchange. How many ot your drafted 
men are to be organized iut» new regiments, and how many are to fill old onest 
The men who enter old regiments must; be armed uniform y with the regiments 
Ihey respectively enter. Oi)io has liad and w 11 reodve her lull proportion of first 
cla'js arms, but she must also take her s-hare of those of second and third clasau 
until they can be replaced by those of first class. 

P. H. WATSON, Assist. Sec'y of War. 



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The following is the letter in reply to the above telegram : 

Columbus, , Oct. 20, 166?. 
P. H, Watson, Assist. Sec'y of War, Washington, D. C. : 

itx^-' ^ ^^^^ *^^ honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of \ 
I8th instant, pronouncing the French muskets a good arm, and inquiiing how 
many drafted men ate to be organized into new regiments, and how many into old 
regiments. « & 

I am not disposed to be captious or fault-finding about arms, believing, as I 
always have, that you were doing the best jou could for us, and that.no partiality 
was shown to one Sfate over another. But you know how clamorous troops are 
lor good arms, and I have never admitted to them that we ever issued unservice- 
able arms. 

As regards the French musket, if Capt. Crispin's clerk, who was sent here to 
examine them, mat'e a favorable report, it is contrary to the facts, and to his own 
admission here. The employee of Capt. Crispin, who is responsible for their in- 
spection, can scarcely be considered unprejudiced. As I before reported to you, 
and now beg respectfully to reaffirm, the arms are quite indifferent— none of them 
tirst class, scarcely second class, and at least one-filth of them totally unfit for issue 
to troops. They vary in calibre from 58 to nearly 72 (though invoiced to me as 
ih Tif^^ ^^^ ^^^^ re-calibred and classified, as 69 and 71. and so issued 

tnem. They are roughly put together, are weak in the mainsprings, deficient in 

i f ^'^ffi ^^^ appendages, and never could have passed the inspection of a com- 
petent officer. If the Government received them as good, serviceable arms, it 
was grossly imposed upon. 

Samples of three different classes and calibres of this mixed lot were sent by 
'-apt. Lrispm's clerk to New York. Of these arms I have made issues to three 
regiments, and will endeavor to supply two m re. 

vve hear also a great deal of complaint about the recent issues of Austrian 
rmes, but I invariably reply to these complaints that they are a good arm, and 
that no better can be obtained. 

I fully appreciate the annoyance and trouble you have, and would not add to 
u; nor do 1 ask any thing better for Ohio than is given to other States. 

1 would myself very much prefer a first class Spring6eld smooth bore musket 
to either the Austrian or French rifle, but I fear our troops would not be as well 
satisfied, the rifle being the popular arm. 

i cannot tell you the exact number of drafted men that will be organized into 
new regiments. The Governor thinks now about eight thousand. They have 
been enlisting in old and new regiments, but that has nearly ceased. 

We want Irom ten to fifteen thousand good, serviceable arms for new three 
years regiments, and regiments of drafted men now organizing, and we need them 
immediately. b 6» 

My weekly report is made regularlv to the Ordnance Department, and you can 

at any moment ascertain just what I have on hand. I will not ask for what we 

do not need, and am never disposed to find fault, trusting that your department is 

incapable of any injustice as between States when you have the facts before you. 

1 am, sir, very respectfully. 

Your obd't serv't, 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q. M. General. 0. 



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Columbus, 0., Oct. 23, 1862. 
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Sec'y of War, Washington, D. C. : 

Sir : — We are very much annoyed by the reports we get from some of our 
regiments in regard to the Austrian guns, of which we have issued about thirty 
thousand to troops raised the past summer. The Governor is greatly annoyed by 
these reports ; for instance, yesterday the Major of the 121st Regiment, who had 
his men in line of battle and under fire for more than one hour, at the recent fight 
near Perryville, Ky., says that more than one hundred of the guns in the hands 
of the men could not be fired by reason of some defects. Of course some of the 
fault is with the men— raw recruits do not know how to use a gun, or remedy 
small defects. This is but one of the ma^ny cases reported. We have frequent 
and bitter complaints of the Austrian as well as French rifles, of which latter we 
recently received about five thousand. We are now very much in want of from 
ten to fifteen thousand arms for the drafted men, and for new regiments of volun- 
teers now organizing in the State. 

From letters and dispatches I get from the Ordnance oflfice, it would seem that 
the department is vexed and impatient with my importunities; and the Governor 
has directed me to write you, and request that you will order a supply of service- 
able arms to be sent us if they are to be obtained, or if not, to let us know what 
to expect or hope for. 

We should also like to be supplied with a serviceable breech -loading arm for 
our cavalry. The French guns with long sabre bayonets, sent us for this purpose, 
are useless for cavalry service. 

Hoping soon to have a favorable reply, 

I am, ii*, very respectfully. 

Your obd't servant, 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q M. General. 



Columbus, 0., Oct. 28, 1862. 
Bon. P. H. Watson, Assist. Stc'y of War, Washington, D. G. : 

Sib :— I am gratified to know the prompt attention given to my letter of 20th 
inst., addressed to you. by a letter received from General Ripley, announcing the 
order for shipment to me of more arms, and enclosing a report showing the num- 
bers and class of arms assigned to and received by our State. 

I beg to assure you that, notwithstanding the complaints lodged with the Gov- 
ernor and myself by MajorGenerals, Brigadier-Generals, Colonels, Captains and 
Lieutenants, in regard to arms issued to Ohio troops, and the representation that 
Indiana and other Western States have been favored abjve Ohio in the character 
of arms received, we have invariably replied that the War Department was doing 
the best it could, and was not and could not be guilty of any partiility or favorit- 
ism ; and we have always done all in our power to inspire faith and confidence in 
the arms issu'-d. . 

May I beer that you will concede to our State the earliest possible issue of all 
the first das'! arms we are justly entitled to, that I may make an early exchange 
with some of our regiments, that are now suffering and absolutely becoming dis- 
couraged and demoralized by the use of what is termed the third class arms. 

Hopincr you will pardon my deep solicitude on this subject, and give us your 
usual prompt and favorable response, 

I am, sir, very respectfully. 

Your obd't servant, 

GEO. B. WRIGHT, Q. M. General, 0. 



SDRGEON GENERAL'S REPORT. 



Surgeon-General Weber being unable, from ill health, to prepare a report, the 
followipg, \?ith other letters, relative to the care of sick and wounded soldiers of 
Ohio, were printed by order of the Geueral Assembly : 



State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, May 2, 1862. 

Dr. S. M. Smith, Columbus, 0.: 

Dear Sir : — Having kindly accepted the position of Superintendent end Medical 
Purveyor of the steamboat Tycoon, now fitting out at Cincionaii, for a trip after 
the sick and wounded soldiers of our State, I have but to give jou these instruc- 
tions : 

1st. See that the boat is in perfect order, and fully provided with every neces- 
Bary outfit for the comfort of the soldiers and yourself and party. 

2d. Assii^tant Q M. General hlifs, whom you will meet at Cincinnati, it is 
expected, will have provided all hospital and sanitary stores. 

3d. Surgeon-Gent ral Weber will have provided and organized a full corps of 
surgeons lind nurses for the expedition. 

4th. After having thus equipped, you will proceed with as much dispatch as 
practicable to Paducah, Kentucky, and, placing yourself in connection with those 
in authority at that point, ascertain the condition of things at or near Pittsburgh 
Landing and Corinth ; and if you there le-^rn that we have had a battle of any 
considerable magritude, you will then at once proceed to Pittsburgh Landing, and 
there tender the services of your boat and party for the relief of the sick and 
wounded whom you may there find, coiifining your efforts, as far as consistent and 
practicable, to the relief of the Ohio soldiers, bringing such as may be able to be 
removed to Cincinnati. 

6th. If, however, jou learn on your arrival at Paducah that there is no imme- 
diate necesi-ity for going up the Tennessee, you will proceed up the Cumberland 
river, and visit the hospitals at Nashville and other points along the river, and re- 
ceive upon your boat such sick and wounded Ohio soldiers as you may there find 
in a fit condition to be removed, and who may be properly and regularly discharged 
or furloughed, and carry th^m to Cincinnati, and have them placed ia the hospitals 
in that vicinity. 

6th. You will keep a strict account of all your expendi'ures, and report the 
same to me on your return. To meet those ot an incidental character, I hand you 
herewith * 1,000. 

As you are familiar with the duties committed to you, by reason of previous 
service, these general instructions are all that are necessary lor your guidance. 

Very truly yours, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



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Stitk or Ohio. Exkcutivb Dfpvrtmest, 
CoLUMuus. Alay 6, lbtj2. 
To Robert Harper, Esq., Bdlair, 0. : 

S:iK\—Yo\i. are hereby appointed an agent to look after Ihe s'^k and wounded 
solJiers who m«y pass through your place, bound homeward Your specinl duty 
will be to attend upon the arrival of trains and steamers, and there search for and 
provide fr all .sick soldiers whom you may there meet. This provision must be 
adapted to the parlicuUr wants of each soldier, viz : should he want food or rest, 
see that he has it; should he need advice or direc ions, give it to him. lu tine, 
my object is to minister to all the reasonable wants of our gallant b >ys. 

Your compensation will be at the rate of $1 60 pi-r day. You «i I keep an ac- 
curate account ot the i ems of your disbursements, and report the same fo me 
every Monday morning. Should special or extracroinary conliDgencies aiise, you 
will report the s:ime to me for special instructions. 

Yours, etc., 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



Stats of Onto, ExEonrivE Department, 
Columbus, May 5, 18b2. 
Major- Oenerol Shields : 

Dear Sir: — The bearer, G. W. Williams, is one of Ohio's pay-agents, and I 
have assijjned him to duty with your diviriou of the army, by Special Order 
No. 41. of the War Depatiment, Apiil Itiih, 18t'2, pa} masters are directed to 
recogiiizti ihrse agents. You will greatly serve the wives and families oi these 
gallant troops by giving Mr. Wi.liams every necessary facility to accomplish the 
duties of his mission. 

Very truly yours, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
CoLUMDus, May 6, lBb2. 
To James T. Davis, Etq., Crestline, 0. : 

Sir : — You are hereby appointed an agent to look after the sick and wounded 
soldiers who may pass through your place bound homeward Your special duty 
will bt; to attend upon the arrival of trains, and there search for, atjd provide for 
all sick 8 Idlers whom you may meet. This provision must be adapted to the 
particular wants of each soldier, viz : should he want food or rest, see that he 
has It ; should he need advice or direction, give it to him la fine, my ol ject is 
to minister to all the reasonable wants of our gallant bojs. 

Your compensation will be at the rate ol $1 50 per day. You will keep an ac- 
curate aL'couut of the items uf your disbursements, and report the same to me 
every Monday morning Should special or extraordinary cases arise, }0U will 
report the same to me for special instructions. 

Yours, etc , 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



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State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
C0LUMBD8, May 12, 1862, 
Dr. W. L. McMUlen Oolumlus, 0. : 

Sir ' — I am pained to learn from the enclosed dispatch that there is a large 
number of sick and wounded Ohio soldiers at New Albany, Indiana, awaiting 
transportation home. Greatly as the State is already indebted to you, I feel im- 
pelled to make another call upon you to aid me in alleviating the distresses of 
these gallant boys. 

Allow me then to ask you to proceed at once to New Albany, and provide for 
and superintend the removal of all the soldiers whom you may find there, to Cin- 
cinnali and Camp Dennison. Should the number fit to be removed justify it, I 
have to direct that you charter a steamer specially for that purpose, and that you 
supply the same with such nurses and stores as may be neces ary to make your 
party comfortable on the trip to Cincinnati. It is supposed that all this can be 
obtained at Louisville. 

To meet mcidental expenses, I hand you herewith five hundred dollars. Should 
you require any additional means before you return to this city, draw on me at 
sight for the same. 

Advise me by telegraph from time to time of the progress you are making. 

Respectfully yours, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, May 13, 1862. 

To Quartermaster- General Wright, and Surgeon- General Weber : 

Gentlemen : — In view of the impending danger of a severe contest at or near 
Corinth, Miss., I have to direct that you forthwith proceed to Cincinnati, and 
there charter and fit out a steamboat for the purpose of promptly removing the 
sick and wounded from the battle-field to our hospitals within the State. 

You have now had so much experience in this work of duty, that particular 
instructions for your guidance are unnecessary. 

I have sent some twenty-five recently appointed State surgeons to report to 
you forthwith, at the Burnet House, Cincinnati, for duty. You will assign them 
to duty on the steamers which you may charter. 

When ready, you will order the steamers to proceed to Paducah, or some con- 
venient point on the Tennessee Rivtr, and there await the lesult of the move- 
ment of the armies at Corinth. 

Should these movements lesult in an engagement of any considerable magni- 
tude, they will then proceed up the river to the most convenient point for receiv- 
ing the wounded ; and after taking on board all that they can well provide for, 
will return to Cincinnati. 

Should the enemy, however, abandon Corinth without a battle, the parties in 
charge of the boats will then visit the several regimental and other hospitals on 
the Tennessee and Ohio rivers, and bring home the sick and wounded ther« 
found. 

Tlie persons whom you entrust with the charge of the boats, should be fur- 
nished with copies of these instructions, and are requested to keep me fully ad- 
vised by telegraph, of their movements. 

Respectfully yours, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



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State of Onio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, May 16, 1862. 
Col. S. Bliss, Assist. Q. M. General : 

Dear Sir : — The benevolent duty of removing Ohio's sick and wounded sol- 
diers from the Tennessee Valley is not >et completed, I therefore, on the 13th 
inst., directed Q M. Gen. Wright, and Surg. Gen. Weber, to proceed forthwith 
to Cincinnati, and there charter and fit out two steamers, to proceed with dis- 
patch to the vicinity of Pittsburgh Landing, for the relief of fuch of our sick and 
wounded as most require it. Gen. Wright, who is yet in Cincinnati, will hand 
over to you the instructions I gave him. 

I have now to request that you proceed without delay t > Cincinnati, and take 
general charge of the two boats, which I expect you will find in readiness to pro- 
ceed on their voyage. 

My instructions, which you will receive from Gen. Wright, will guide you in 
the performance of your duties You will find these instructions quite general 
in their character, but the zeal and faithfulness you have heretofore manifested 
in this holy work, renders it unnecessary that I should be more explicit. Should 
you require any more funds than the unexpended balance now in your hands, 
draw on me at sight for the same. 

Advise me by telegraph from time to time of your progress. 

Respectfully yours. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, May 16, 1862. 
Surgeon S. M. Smith, present : 

Dear Sir :— The good work is not yet all accomplished. Ohio's gallant sick 
and wounded soldiers have not all been provided for. I have therefore directed 
Surg. Gen. Weber, and Q. M. Gen. Wright, to proceed to Cincinnati, and there 
charter and fit out two steamers, to repair without delay to the recent field of 
strife, near Pittsburgh Landing, and there receive on board such of our sick and 
wounded as most demand our attention. A copy of my instructions to Generals 
Weber and Wright i« herewith inclosed. And now, my dear sir, much as you 
have already done for our brave troops, I have to request that you take charge 
of one of these boats, as Medical Director. I am duly sensible, that in thus re- 
questing you to Inake a fourth trip to the field of Shiloh, you may well charge 
me with a want of generosity, but the necessities of the service, with y. ur pecul- 
iar fitness for the delicate and responsible duties pertaining to it, ccmpel me to 
make this request. It is presumed that Surg. Gen. Weber will have provided the 
boat with all the surgeons, nurses and stores necessary ; but if not, you will be 
able to supply any deficiency at Cincinnati. To meet incidental expenses, 1 hand 
you herewith i8!600. Should you want any additional amount, please draw on 
me at sight for the same. 

Very respectfully yours, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, May 16, 1862. 
Bon. Geo. B. Senter, new at Columbus, 0. : 

Dear Sir : Feel assured that I am duly sensible of the great service you ten- 
der the gallant soldiers of Ohio, as well as the interest of our Stale, in agam 



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yielding to my urgent Bolicitations that you take charge of one of our boa's now 
filling out at Cincinnati for the bloody field of Shiloa. The loyal people of Ohio 
■will never forget your generous and noble tff)rts in alleviating the distresses of 
our brave troops, and God will bless you for it. 

You will tind two boats at Cincinnati all equipped for the voyage. Wy desire 
is that you take the general charge and buperviti. n of one of tbem, and tliat Col. 
Bliss take the charge of the other. 

Copies of my insiiuc'ions to Gen. Wright, Col. Bliss and Surgeon Smith are 
herewith communicated, to which I refer for your guidance. 

Kespecttully yours, 

David tod, Governor. 



State of Ohio, Execdtive Department, 
CoLLjuBDS, May 18, 18d2. 

Come ius S. Hamilton, E^q , Marysviile, Union Co., 0, ; 

Dear Sir : As agreed in our interview of yesterday, in wV ich you kindly offered 
your services to ine in caring for and looking after Ohio's* gallant soldiers, 1 pro- 
ceed to point out to you the special duties I desire you to per'orra. 

1st. There are at Louisville, Ky., some 2U0 prisoners of war, taken by the 
n'^ted outlaw Morgan, mainly, if not entirely, of the 2d and IBih Ohio Infantry, 
These prisoners have been, by Morg«n, paro'ed, but wh>it the terms and condi- 
tions of the parole are, I have not been advised. I have, therefore, to request 
you to procetd at otce to Louisville, and inquire into their situation and the con- 
diiious of their paro'e. If their parole is general in its chaiacter, then sdvise 
them to return to heir respective homes, and furnish them with the necessary 
railroad passes to enable them to do so. If, however, iheir parole limits ihem to 
the city of Louiivi'le, then see that ample provision be made lor their health and 
com'ort. 

You will also, when in Louisville, look into the several hosp^^als in that city, in 
which Ohio soldiers are to be found, and ascert-iio the condition ot our sick, and 
S( e that ivt-r) thing is being done that should be for their comfort and happiness. 

You will furni-h transportation passes to such of the sick as the Medical Di- 
rector may be willing to give furloughs to. 

2i. After having accomplished the business indicated at LTuisville, you will 
proceed with hs much dispatch as practicable to Cairo, 111., and there look to the 
general interests and well being of our soldiers who may be found at that point. 

By care and atteoii )n, I mean that faiherl/ guardianship that a great, wealthy 
and generous State, like Ohio, should take over her brave snd giliant sons who 
have volunteered to protect her honor and best interest To a man of heart and 
largi^ ex,..erience, like yourcelf, it is unnecessary that I point out in detail your 
minute du^y in the discbarge of this sabred tru-t commiittd to your hands. 

The instruction contained in the circular of Q. M. Gtn Wright, a copy of which 
was handed you yesterday, as to the use of passes, wi;l guiile you. 

You will of course keep a strict account of your exp^-n^es and disbursements, 
and draw upon me from time to time for such sums as will rtiuiburse you. 

You will communicate fully and often with me, by leter, making such sugges- 
tions for the comfort of trie soldiers and efficiency of the service as you may deem 
aflvisable. 

Advise me by telegraph as to whose care I shall address you at Cairo, 

Invoking God's richest blessings upon yourself and your mission, 

1 am, truly your*, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



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State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
CuLUMDua, June 4, li6i. 
O. G E Weber, Surp.- Geveral, Present : 

Dear Sir : Tlu n^ are so many matters of moment connected wiih tlie manrtge- 
ment and wtUare of the sick and wuunded troops from Ohio r< q'liiintj prompt 
atteiiti 'n, tiiat I must ask you to proceed at once to Wasl)ington Ciiy lor corJ^ulta- 
tian with the M^-dical Department of the Army. 

You are so familiar with ibe necessities of tlie service, that it can liardly be 
necessary for me to point, out specifically the difficulties that we ensnunitr in our 
eft'iris to allevi-ite the jifHiclions of our sick and wounded. A lew of ihe more 
prominent obstacles will oiily be named to \ou : 

1st. The service is deticirnt in the number of surgeons allowed to each regi- 
ment. To obvirite this difficulty you are aware that authority w.is given me by 
the Legi-lature to appoint fifty State Surgeons, but for the want oi tull recooniiioa 
of them hy the Federal Govt-riimenf, their usefulness is llmiit-d. Tlie Dt part- 
ment should adopt them into its service, give them the rai.k and pay ot Assistant 
Surgeons. If It decline doing this, it siiould at least furnish ihem transpottdtiuo 
and subsistence, so difficult to be obtained in any other manner. 

You will plea>e make koown to the ^^urgeon•Gc■n^ral Ve means that we make 
use of to secure Sur^f ons of high character for these positions. 

2d, Secure, i' po»t-ible, grea er fa ;ility in the matter of furloughs and discharges 
from service. I am aware ihat this is a most delicate matter lo inierftre wi(b ; 
for the desire of the soldier, in many instances, (o get out of llie hospit.d, botti 
for active duty and to esc-^pe from it, requires extreme vigilatce and care iu the 
exercise of the power of discharging soldiers fn-m hospital. 

3d. Tile embarras-m^-nt attending the payment of s .Idiers confined in hospital. 
S.ringent orders should bi giv^n to captains and colonels to furnish hH soldiers 
sent to the hospitals wiih such descriptive rolls as would enab e tLem to draw 
their pay 

4th. Explain fuHy to the Surgeon-General our labors and < xpenc^itures in the 
removal of »ick and woundtd soldiers from the T' nnesste and Cumt>erland val- 
le}s This humane work was en'ered upon as a gratuity on the pait ot tl e Stile, 
but the seV( ral Medic^d Directors have made such (ree use ot < ur boats iii^t we 
can with en ire propriety ask ihe Fe^er .1 Gjvernncent to contiibuie toward the 
ex,=ense 

Let me hear from you by tel graph, or otherwise, during your slay in Wash- 
ington. Desiring your early return, 

Youjs, &c, DAVID TOD, Governor. 



State op Onto, Executive Department, 
CuLUMDUS, June 12, 1862. 

Col. S. Bliss, Asiistant Quartermaster- General : 

Our christian duty in caring for the sick and wounded brave fr'op> of Ohio, is 
rot yet fully pei formed. Many gallant boys yet remain iu the Tiinussee VdUey 
that must be brought home 

I have, tiertfoir, to direct that you proceed at once to Cincinrati, an! there 
charier and fit out aiiinher steamer for a trip to Pittsburgh Lmdin^. It is not 
neoes.-ary thai 1 {.ive \ on special insiruoli>ns as to the charrtcu r t f ilir- boat or the 
ouific. The large expern nee you have already liad, emiiieraly quilifi s you for 
the duly. It is expected that you will ha\e the boat ready to depart at six o'clock 
ou S^'utday ev« i.ing iiex^. 

I have selected Surgeon R. N. Barr of this city as Medicdl Director, and Octa- 



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vius Waters as Commodore of the boat. I have also accepted the services of 
Doctors W W. Bridges, Joseph Osborn, J. C Campbell, H. W. Duff, C. P Ash- 
mun and B. B. Leonard, with authority to each to bring four nurses with them — 
all of whom are directed lo report to you at tbe Burnet House on Saturday. 
These surgeons and nurses are deemed sufficient. 

You will deliver to Surgeon Barr this letter of introduction. He will, on his 
arriv^al at Pittsburgh Landing, report himself, party and boat, to the Medical 
Director, Surgeon McDougal, who will cheerfully give him every aid and facility 
to fill up the boat with those of our sick most requiring our attention. 

Di. Barr is requested to keep me duly advised by telegraph of his movements, 
and, on his return, report here, in person, for settlement of the various accounts. 

You will furnish Commodore Waters with all funds necessary to defray current 
expenses, raising the same by draft on me at sight. 

On the departure of the boat from Cincinnati, you will return to duty at your 
post here. Yours, DAVID TOD, Governor. 



State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, July 2, 1862. 
To M. C. Makin, Present: 

Dear Sir : Thankful for <he valuable services which you have already ren- 
dered the Stale in looking after and caring for the sick and wounded Ohio soldiers, 
id the various hospitals in Virginia, 1 have to request that you again engage in 
this benevolent mission. 

You will therefore proceed without delay to Bellaire, Wheeling, New Creek, 
Cumberland and Strassburg, Va. , visit the hospitals at those points, and render 
such aid and assistance to the suffering soldiers as may be in your power. 

Your past experience in this good work renders specific instructions unnecessary, 
Riy object being to promote as far as possible, the health ai d comfort of the gal- 
lant soldiers in the service of the country. 

You are directei to keep an accurate account of your expenses, and to meet 
present necesrities, I herewith hand you $100. 

You will report to rae from time to time the condition in which you find our 
men, and make such suggestions as may be of value. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



State of Ohio, Executive, Department, 
Columbus, July 3d, 1862. 
Dr. John A. Murphy, Present : 

Dear Sir: — At the request of the Medical Director, Dr. McDougal, I wish to 
have sent, every six or seven days, to the Medical Purveyor at Columbus, Ky., 
the following articles for the use of the hospitals at that place, to wit : 24 dozen 
chickens, 1 bbl. of eggs, 10 bash, of new potatoes, 2 bush, of beets and 2 bush, 
onions. 

And I have to request you when you return home, to employ some faithful 
acquaintance to purchase and forward said articles. I have further to request 
you from time to time to certify the bills to me for payment. 

When you remember that public necessity knows no law, you will pardon me 
for thus troubling you. 

Very truly vours, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



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State of Ohio, Executive Departeekt"^ 
Columbus, July 29, 1862. 
To the Military Commitlee of County : 

Gentlemen : — The vigorous co operation of this department is asked by the 
War Depar raent in returning to duty the large number of soldiers now absent 
from their regiments in the field, and I know of no method better calculated to 
promptly comply with this request than to solicit your aid in the matter. 

Every soldier fit for duty should now share in the dangers and glories of the 
field. The soldier that voluntarily absents himself from duty, is by the terms of 
General Order No. 65, deemed a deserter, and is therefore liable to all the pen- 
alties attached to desertion, and sooner or later these penalities are certain to be 
iLflicted. It is therefore our duty to the soldier himself, to rescue him from this 
impending punishment. 

The duty I ask ot you is, that you have your county thoroughly canvassed, and 
every soldier found therein hunted up, and their names returned to me. The 
arduous duties I have heretofore asked of you, make me hesitate in thus further 
taxing your generosity, but when you remember that "public necessity knows no 
law," I trust you will pardon this further demand upon you. 

Very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus. iSept. 4, 1862. 
C(jI. Gustav C. E. Weber, Surgeon- General ; 

You will proceed forthwith to Washington City, (o look after and care for our 
sick and wounded soldiers in that vicitity. 1 have reason to fear that you will 
find a great number requiring care and attention. Ic is not my wish to interfere 
in the slightest degree with the duties of the regular medical staff; and neither 
do I, by sending jou, impute any want of judicious care and attention on their 
part. Your long experience in the service, and personal acquaintance and Ligh 
standing with the head of the Medical Department, will enable you to act in con- 
cert with it, and hence greatly expedite the removal and discharge of all who 
will never again be fit for service, and the moie speedy recovery of all others. 

You will lake with you some good, active, reliable man to superintend the 
transportation to their respective homes of all such as may be discharged. 

You will, on your arrival in Washington, at once call upon Surgeon General 
Hammond, and bhow him this letter of instructions. 

Please present my regards to Dr. H., and assure him that I fully appreciate 
his untiring and noble efforts in caiing for our sick and wounded soldiers. 

Report to me fiom time to time the prog, ess you are making, and return to 
duly here at the earliest practicable moment. 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 



State of Oiiro, Executive Department, 
Columbus, Oct. 16, 1862. 
CU. S. Bliss, AssUt. Quartermaster - General : 

By dispatches from Surgeon- General Weber, of this date, from Perry ville, Ky., 
I am pained to learn that our sick and wounded at that place are in a suffering 
condition for the want of surgeons, nurses and sanitary stores. I have therefore 
to request that you at once proceed to that point, taking with you from this point 
and Cincinaati a large supply of blankets, clothing and sanitary stores. If you 



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cannot obtain llie?e of the Sanitary Commission at Cincinnati, you wi'l purchase 
llieoi at that point. 

You will Crtl on Mnjor General Wright at Cincinnati, and obtain from him the 
nectssaiy pnasp rts. 1 have rtqut-fettd a number of physicians and nurses to 
meet jou at the Burr el House to laorrow, at 12 o'clucli M. 

Go by way of l^fuibvii *-, aud at ihat point hire conveyance f ( r yourself, party 
and gi oJs. Draw on me at fcigbt from lime to lime for tuch luucJs as may be 
nece-sary lo mteloullnys 

Report to me Irom lime to time by telegraph of the progress you are making. 

RsspecifuUy jours, 

DaVIU tod. Governor. 



State of Onto, Fxecutive Departmbnt, 
Columbus, Dec. 26, 1862. 
James C. Wetmore, Wasldngtm, D. C. : 

Sir : — The large rumber of sick, wounded and discharged soldiers who find 
their way to Washin:iflon Ci y, and tbete requ re counsel, assistance and relief, 
induces me to appoim an agent, to reside at ihat pUce, who*e sole bu.siriess it 
ehall bij to perform •! i-« duty. R posing fu I trusf and cotitidence in )our fiiness 
for this sacred offic*'. I ht-reby ttndtr )ou this position. Your compi n^aiion will 
be at the rate ot SltO per month. I will also allow a reason..ble amjuut for 
office renf, Pta'i()ner\, fuel and light. 

I.I addi'ion lo the duly ot caiioij for the sick and woundei soldiers, you are 
speci-illy dirtcted to gu rd ih<ra against frauds I kely to be commiit' d by a class 
of men who st} le ih- m>elves •* Sjldieis' Claim Agents." The 8. crtttry of War 
has been advi?f'd of jour wpp'>iriim(Mit, and requested to give you every facility 
to diichargf^ luhy the duties a>signed to you. 

You are desired to net in concert, in the care of the sick and wounded, with 
(he "Ohio S>'difrb' Relief Association ot Was-hington." You wi!| lejjort your 
dtings trotn lime to lime to Q M. Gen. Geo. B. Wright, and obey all ordeis and 
iBStructiniis tV a' ynu may rec«ive from his department. 

Yt»u will, wiihout del'iy, uutity me of your accep auce or non -acceptance of 
this appoinimtnt. 

Respectfully yrurs, 

DAVID TOD, Governor. 

CoLUMDCs, Onto, — , 1862, 

FOa THE FREES 07 CLEVELAKD A^D CIKCINNATf, O. 

7l> the Lad'us of Ohio : 

Your <nergy and goodre.«s of heart hav*» given but little opportunity to those 
in authority to m 'ke ^Ui/gesiions as to how yuu r.-in minisier lo the wini.s of the 
tohner, add theiei>) aid in Uiaint-iining our good Government, and win for your- 
selves tlie snii'es ot tlr-av«n. As s-ume of }0U. however, may be i^n./iaiit of the 
frfci that our IrO' ps are ^ut^Vlipg fur the want ot v^get^ble diet, 1 be^ to lecona- 
meiid t.) )ou that }ou cau^e to be put; up large qi nlities ot p'tkl< d cabbages, 
cucumbers and oiiiun-'. ^ii'l ibat jou aUo see to it that an a undance of fiuit, 
pariicularly app'rs >-nd |e che>, be dried and put away for the s >ldier. Go'l has 
b essed us wiiii a p't- 1 li ul supply of all these articles this season You will be 
gUd lo know ih^.. the h« aitli ut i>ur army has gieaily improved, uiid ihat our 
VttiioUa Luspiials a.c now wtU managed. 

DAVID TOD, Ojvernor. 



AUDITOR'S REPORT. 



Columbus, Ohio, December, 1862. 
To Bis Excellency the Governor of the State of Ohio : 

In compliance with the constitution and laws of the State, I have the honor to 
submit to you a report of the condition of the State Finances for the fiscal year, 
ending the 15th day of November, 1862, and an abstract of the receipts and dis- 
bursements of the several funds during the same period. 

A detailed statement of the several items of receipts and disbursements for the 
same period, will be submitted in a separate report, at as early a day as the same 
can be prepared. 

The balance remaining in the Treasury at the close of the fiscal year, Novem- 
ber 16, 1{^61, was §129,176 43, distributed among the several funds as follows, 
viz. : 

General Revenue $16,147 82 

Military Fund 62,219 47 

Sinking Fund 9,641 32 

Common School Fund 37,498 1 8 

School Library Fund 430 82 

National Road Fund 1,974 03 

Three Per Cent. Fund 19 04 

Bank Redemption Fund 1,247 75 



$129,176 43 



There was received into the Treasury during the past year, including the above 
balance on hand at the close of the previous year, $6,368,499 57 ; and the dis- 
bursements by the Treasurer, during the same period, amounted to $5,890,043 
08 ; leaving in the Treasury, November 15, 1862, $478,456 49. 

This balance is distributed among the several funds as follows : 

General Revenue , $266,914 90 

Sinking Fund 63,285 3 1 

Common School Fund 72,450 45 

School Library Fund 185 29 

National Road Fund 6,034 21 

Bank Redemption Fund 963 75 

Soldiers' Allotment Fund 79,632 58 

$478,466 49 



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The following statement exhibits, in a condensed form, the gross amount of the 
revenues of the State, and of the several funds, with the sources from which 
they were chiefly derived, and also the disbursements from the several funds 
respectively : 

RECEIPTS. 

Balance in the Treasury, November 16, 1861 $129,176 43 

General Revenue— From Taxes $1,226,611 82 

From Canals 30,960 86 

From other sources 138,769 71 

$1,396,232 38 

Military Fund— From United States $724,783 30 

From other sources 91 ,690 26 

$816,473 66 

Sinking Fund— From Taxes $ 1 ,249, 832 43 

" War Loan Levy .. . 301,623 19 

From School Lands 86,2 1 8 05 

From Sales oJ Stocks and Bonds. 262,062 17 

From other sources 43,805 33 

$1,943,631 17 

Common School Fund — From Taxes 1,242.630 17 

National Kond Fund— From Tolls 19,6 lO 66 

Soldiers' Allotment Fund— From Pay Agents 820,945 21 

Total Receipts $6,368,499 67 

DISBURSEMENTS 

From General Revenue $998,274 98 

From General Revenue — For Canals 104,949 47 

$1,103,224 45 

From Military Fund 920,962 92 

From Sinking Fund 1,899,887 18 

From Common School Fund I,2u7 675 90 

From Scbool Library Fund 246 63 

From National Road Fund 16,460 47 

From Bmk Redeti>ption Fund S94 00 

From Soldiers' Allotment Fund 741 ,31 2 63 

Total Disbursements $6,890 043 08 

Balance in the Treasury $478,466 49 

A statement, more in detail, of each fund separately, will be found in a subse- 
quent pan of this report, showing tbe particular sources of revenue and objects 
of expenditure. 

ALLOTMENT FUND. 

Slaiement showing the Monthly Receipts of this Fund, 

During February, 1 862 $2,476 60 

•« March, " 61,67 24 

" April, " 89,603 36 

«' May, '* 12,187 32 



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During June, 1 862 )52PO,788 64 

July, " 3U7,765 20 

Ai'g, " 

Sept., " 5()2B 00 

Oct., " 16904 76 

Nov., " (15 days) 44 724 20 



$5820,945 21 



Statermnt showing ike Riceipts and Disbursements of Allotment Fund Jot ike fiscal 
year ending November 15, 1862. 

RECEIPTS, 

From Governor Dwirl Tod §2,476 60 

" H M ('h pn. Agent 6l,6b7 24 

" B. R Bowen, •• 754 75 

*• M>ijor M McDowell, Ayent 666 00 

" G. I Young, " 63.904 93 

" B F. Hoffman, •' 24 6fiO 02 

•' A D Ki^)hee, " 17.433 60 

" Carle'on White, " 4,236 18 

" Jamei E. Lt^wis, " 968 00 

" G. W Williams, " 329 689 43 

" K. Fritter, *♦ 83.6a4 80 

«' J. H. Dollman, " 94 097 80 

«« D H. Dr>den, " 12u. 176 46 

" J Randall, " 1,943 00 

" C.J Wt-tmore, " 6n6 00 

" A B. Lvman, " 14,034 50 

" Daniel English Sullivan, in trust for him or his child, Mary 

A. E. Sullivan 43 10 



Total receipts $820,945 21 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

Amount of Auditor's warrants issued $741,727 63 

Deduct outstandinii warrants 415 00 



Baliince, being amount of warrants redeemed at Treasury 741 ,31 2 63 

Cash balance in Treasury, Nov. 15, 1862 S79. 632 68 

ALLOTMENT FUND. 

Under authority of the act of February 4, 1862, " to enable persons in the mil- 
itary service of this State or of the United States, to transmit their pay to their 
families and friends," there has been transmitted to the State Treasury the sura of 
$820 946.21. This act authorize the payment of money into the Sta'e Treasury 
upon the produf'-tion to the ComptnOler of a descriptive list showing the D'tme of 

Note — -ince the (^ate of the annuiil report th'-re hiis been r-'ceived into the treasury and 
transmitted to counties, $4tl7,3.15. 15, mulling a total of $l,22d 2^0.86 transmitted through the 
State troasury, by Boldiers, lo their familiei and friends, during a period of little more than a 
year. 



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the person paying, the amount paid by him, and the name, residence and post 
office address of the person for whose use the payment is made. A copy of so 
much of this hst as relates to beneficiaries resident in any county is sent to the 
auditor of the county, who draws on the Auditor of State for the amount stated ; 
notifies the partiei- mterested, and draws on the conn'y treasury on demand of any 
person entitled to money so paid. No charge is made against the person sending 
or the person receiving the money, so that it comes to the one for whom it is in- 
tended without diminution. Another act authorizes the Governor to appoint pay 
agents to visit the troops from Ohio, and receive and pay ioto the State Treasury 
such sums as they might desire to transmit home. This system is the most simple, 
direct and certain, of any that has come to my knowledge, and if adopted by the 
soldiers in the field, will enable them to do much toward the support of their fam- 
ilies, and those dependent upon them, without hazard of loss in the transmission 
of the money. 

TAXATION. 

The valuations of property on the duplicate of 1861, upon which the taxes 
collected during the fiscal year 1862 were levied, were as follows : 

Real estate not in cities and villages 8494,064,639 00 

Real estate in cities and villages 149,818,913 00 

Chattel property . . 248,966,632 00 

Total valuation for 1861 8892,860,084 00 

The taxes levied upon this valuation were as follows : 

FOR BTATK PURPOSES. 

General revenue $1,247,699 93 

Sinking fund 1,247,699 94 

War debt fund 311,924 98 

State common school fund 1 ,249.064 43 

Total State taxes $4,056,379 28 

Taxes levied by county, city and other local authorities. 

County tax 81,326,140 43 

Brige tax 324,490 49 

Poortax... 342,225 10 

Building tax 261,087 30 

Road tax 430,263 85 

For railroad debts of counties, etc 638,176 86 

Township tax 323,286 68 

School and school-house tax 1,373,862 68 

Other special taxes 636,028 46 

City, town and borough taxes 1,560,197 88 

Total local taxes levied in 1861 87,014,748 61 

811,071,127 89 
Add delinquencies and forfeitures 686,686 03 

Total taxes, delioquencies, etc.,on the duplicate of 1861. $11,656,813 92 



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The taxes levied on the duplicate of 1862, to be collected during the fiscal year 
1863, are assessed upon the following valuations of property : 

Real estate not in cities and villages ^494, 101,182 00 

Real estate in cities and villages 1 61 ,668,898 00 

Chattel property 243,615,212 OU 

Total valuation for 1862 $889,286,292 00 

The taxes levied upon this valuation are as follows : 

FOR STATE PURPOSES. 

General revenue $887,661 13 

Sinking fund 1,242,727 1 1 

War debt fund 310,685 31 

Common school fund 1,165,220 99 

Volunteer relief fund 533,178 80 



Total State taxes $4,129,473 34 

FOR COUNTY, CITY AND BOROUGH PURPOSES. 

County tax $1,159,949 34 

Poor tax 227,781 54 

Bridge tax 214,466 11 

Building tax 167,468 90 

Roadtax 211,864 66 

For railroad debts of counties, etc 81 2,204 62 

Townshiptax 226,463 84 

School and school-house tax 1 ,02 1 ,0 1 1 62 

Other special taxes 279,743 04 

City, town and borough taxes 1,322,092 62 

Total local taxes levied in 1 862 $6,633,035 99 



Total taxes of 1862 $9,762,509 33 

Add dehnquencies and forfeitures 372,776 30 

Total taxes of 1862, including delinquencies, etc $10,135,286 63 

The amount of taxes levied in 1861, for general revenue, sink- 
ing fund, war debt fund, and State common school fund, was. 4,056,379 28 
The amount paid into the State Treasury, including collections 

of former delinquencies, is 4 02' ',597 



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Showing the delinquencies and costs of collection to have ex- 
ceeded the amount collected on former delinquencies in the 
sum of 35.781 67 

Or about seven-eights of one per cent, on the levy. 

The levies for general revenue, sinking fund, war debt fund, 
State common school fund, and volunteer re'ief fund, on the 
duplicate of 1862, are 4,129,473 34 

The receipts from these are estimated at 3,997,454 00 

Allowing fcr delinquencies and cost of collection, in excess of 

collections oa former deUnqueQoies $132,013 34 



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The collection? on the duplicate of 1861 were extraordinarily large. During 
no former year have the payments been more prompt, and the del cqupncies so 
small. It is noi prubiible as l>ir!^e a prop'rtJDn will be collected on the duplicate 
of I86S:, and I estimate the net receipts at ^132 UI9 34 less than ihe gross levy 
for the ;^ear. The levies for St-ite purposes on the duplicate of I8fi<>, amuunied 
to $3,503,712 93. and the collections to $3, 383,482 ('6— showing ihat the delin- 
qui-ncies, and costs ni colle'Ui>n. exceeiJed the sum collected on tormer delinquen- 
cies — \Q !Bl!2(),230 87 — or nearly three and a half per cent, on the levy. 

RELIEF FUND. 

The three-fifths of a mill tnx, levied by the Act of February 13, 1862, " for 
the relief of the fnmilies of volunteers in the State or United States service," 
amounts to the sum of $533,178 80, but subject to be reduced by delinquencies 
and the costs of collection, so that the net proceeds of the tax are e8tim:ited at 
$610 01)0. 

A continuance of this mode of relief is recommended. The tax ought not to 
be r<-garded as a public burden, nor yet as a public charity, bui as a relief due 
in ju-tice to the families . f those who, leavmg hum*- and friends, h^zird health, 
salfcty, and liie itself, for the honor and the security of all In continuing thia tax, 
the amount should be increased and the plan of distribution, through the State 
Treasury, ab indoaed. The numb r of vohm'eers in the fit-Id last May was 81^872; 
the number now is 140 000, being an increasw of seventy five per cent The levy 
then made w*s three-fifths of a mill, which was certainly not too large. A. levy 
of o .e mill for 1863 w puld not exceed in proportion that of 1862. and would, io 
many cases, still leave room for charity. 

In conclusion, a view of the financial transacions of the State, during the past 
year exhibits gratifying results. Tax- s have been met with more than ihe usual 
promptness of the people, and the sum paid into the treasury, irom this source, 
more nearly reaches the amount of the levy than during any former year. Dur- 
ing the year I860 there w>i8 collected $2,899,014 41 of a levy of $2,997,918 60, 
the diflferenne being, $98,904 19 The collections during 1861 amounted to 
$3 383 482 06 on a levy of $3 503 712 93, the difference beint; $120,230 87, 
while tiiose of 1862 were $4 020 697 6 I on a levy of $4,056 379 28, the differ- 
ence being but $35,781, 67. Th's shows that, notwithstanding the existence of 
an extensive and powerful rebellion ag-iinst the rightful authority of the Federal 
Government and the unity ot the Stat< s, in several f the sister States, withdraw- 
ing from Ohio, into the service of the Government, a large number of her most 
active and industrious citizens, and otherwise greatly t^ixing the mueri-il wealth, 
and the physical and mental energies of her people, the soil has brought forth its 
fruits in their wonted abundance, and general prosperity has crowned the labors 
<>' all. The demands upon the treasury for the ordinary expenses of the State 
Government, the military expenses, and those of her magnificent system of char- 
itie-^, hive been met without delay, leaving in the treasury an actual cash balance 
of $266,914 9t), applicable to the hke purposes during the current year. The 
f'inking fund has been ample to meet the interest on the State debt — pay $765,- 
610 71 of the principal — arjd leave unexpended, for similar uses hereafter, $15!,- 
367 31. 

With a continuation of the wisdom and prudence that have governed the Gen- 
eral Assembly in making appropriations and aulhorizint/ expenditures for the past 
tew year.<, like gratiiyiiig results may be anticipated for the future. 
1 liave the honor to be, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

K. W, TaYLER, 

Auditor of State. 



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